Etruscan sculpture, painting, and architecture served as a model for this empire's future contribution to art and architecture.
Who are the Romans?
100
This architectural member is a rectangular, vertical projection that usually has a base and a capital and is often flattened.
What is a Pilaster?
100
Charuns are known as this in Etruscan culture.
What is death demons?
100
Most modern scholars believe that the Etruscans were the result of the fusion of these two peoples.
Who are native and immigrant populations?
100
This decorative pin is characteristic to Etruscan culture.
What is a Fibula?
200
This is a large burial area or cemetery. Its literal translation is, "city of the dead".
What is a Necropolis?
200
Exaggerated gestures, joyful themes, and detailed natural landscapes were characteristic of this structures paintings.
What is an Etruscan tomb?
200
This subject was commonly painted in early Etruscan tombs.
What is the afterlife?
200
The presence of exquisitely decorated fibulas found with sarcophagi demonstrate this.
What is position and value of women in Etruscan society?
200
This contributed greatly to the Etruscan fall to Roman aggressors.
What is lack of political unity?
300
This monster is of Greek invention. It has the head and body of a lion and the tail of a serpent. It also has a second head, of a goat, which grows outside of the body.
What is a Chimera?
300
This is a gateway made of arches that forms a post-lintel structure.
What is an arcuated gateway?
300
This was placed in Etruscan tombs to guard the dead in the afterlife.
What is Leopards?
300
This Etruscan conventions distinguish men and women.
What is skin color?
300
By the end of this century, the Etruscans controlled most of the Northern & Central Italy and ruled each territory independently.
What is the 6th Century BC.
400
This decorative technique fuses tiny metal balls onto a metal surface.
What is Granulation?
400
Wood instead of stone, a simple instead of a difficult entrance, columns in the front instead of all around, and acroterians instead of sculptures distinguish Etruscan temples from this culture's temple.
What is Greek Temples?
400
These three animals combined to form the Chimera.
What is the lion, the serpent, and the goat?
400
Gesticulating arms, fan-like calf muscles, and an animated face characterize this figure as Etruscan.
What is the Apulu from Veii?
400
The Greek's referred to the Etruscans as this, due to their location near the waters of the Western, Italian coastlines.
What is Tyrrhenians?
500
This is a technique that creates patterns by beating a metal plate from the back, thus leaving an impression on the face.
What is Repoussé?
500
This temple originally housed the Apulu from Veii.
What is the Temple in Portonaccio Sanctuary at Veii?
500
This she-wolf is a supposed replica of the wolf which nursed Romulus and Remus during their infancy.
What is the Capitoline Wolf?
500
This male figure is made of bronze, wears a short toga and high laced boots.
What is the Aule Matele?
500
The Etruscans were the first people in the Italian Peninsula to learn writing. They adopted this alphabet and contributed to the spread of writing to the Romans.