Art History

Art H Etrus-Roman Mid Age Ren-Roco Mod 1 Mod 2

Etruscan 800 - 500 b.c.

jump to ROME
Notes - Durant's Caesar and Christ
Italian Peninsula summary: met museum
Vatican Museum
Greek,Etruscan, Roman images
Met timeline - world view
roman/etruscan import restrictions

MAPS
map 1 : Etruscan rule
map 2 : World (macro to micro)

650 bc

Human-headed cinerary urn

Urn image link

+-500 bc

She-Wolf Bronze

(cherubs added during Renaissance)Image link

Romulus and Remus

Sarcophagus, Cerveteri, Terra-cotta

Magraw Hill Art Links - go to 6.13a, 6.13b,
front and back

frescoes/tomb ptgs

Musicians and 2 dancers
Tomb of the Lionesses
Tarquinia IT

painting image link, other tombs

Reconstruction of Temple

Image link

Apollo from Veii Terra-cotta 69"

Image Link
"His massive body, revealed beneath the
ornamental striations of the drapery; the sinewy, muscular legs, the hurried, purposeful stride - all these posses an expressive force that has no counterpart in freestanding Greek statues of the same date." Janson p 155

+- 300 bc

Burial Chamber,Tomb of the reliefs, Cerveteri Italy
Burial Chamber image/info

ROME

Italian Peninsula summary: met

MAPS
map 1 : Roman rule
map 2 : World (macro to micro)
Maps 3: great collection
Story of Romulus and Remus
Architecture Links
Archeology and Engineering
Tigertail virtual museum
Population figures for rome and empire
History of Western Architecture

500 bc (Republic)

Arch, Barrel vault, Groin vault

Vault Image Link
Roman concrete and tufa

100 bc (Empire)

Temple of the Sibyl Tivoli

Image Link

pg 160

A Roman Patrician with Busts of His Ancestors

Image Link

Note: There are no portraits existing dated before 100 bc, however there are written accounts of sculpture at least 400 years earlier.

Republican Couple

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