Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

9-1Double-flute player, detail of a mural painting in the Tomb of the Leopards, Tarquinia, Italy, ca. 480–470 bce. Detail 3 31 ...

“ T he Etruscans, as everyone knows, were the people who occupied the middle of Italy in early Roman days, and whom the Romans, ...

During the eighth and seventh centuries BCE, the Etruscans, as highly skilled seafarers, enriched themselves through trade abroa ...

The jewelry from the Regolini-Galassi Tomb also includes a golden pectoral that covered a deceased woman’s chest, and two gold c ...

APULU OF VEIIThe finest of these rooftop statues to survive today is the life-size image of Apulu (FIG. 9-4), which displays the ...

could house large sarcophagi. The Greeks buried their dead in sim- ple graves marked by a stele or a statue. Moreover, although ...

the torso at the waist is unnatural. The Etruscan artist’s interest focused on the upper half of the figures, especially on the ...

TOMB OF THE RELIEFSThe most elaborate of the Cerveteri tombs, in decoration if not in plan, is the so-called Tomb of the Reliefs ...

are reminiscent of the panthers on each side of Medusa in the pedi- ment (FIG. 5-17) of the Temple of Artemis at Corfu. But myth ...

Later Etruscan Art The fifth century BCEwas a golden age in Greece but not in Etruria. In 509 BCEthe Romans expelled the last of ...

and slew the composite beast. As rendered by the Etruscan sculptor, the chimera, although injured and bleeding, is far from defe ...

pilasters have a long and distinguished history in Roman and later times. In the Porta Marzia, sculpted half-figures of Jupiter ...

journey to the afterlife. Above, the deceased is shown in a reclining position, but he is not at a festive banquet, and his wife ...

ORIENTALIZING ART, ca. 700–600 BCE ❚During the early first millennium BCE, the Etruscans emerged as a people with a culture dist ...

10-1Detail of the facade of the Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater), Rome, Italy, ca. 70–80 ce. Rome’s most famous landmark (FIG. 1 ...

W ith the rise and triumph of Rome, a single government ruled, for the first time in history, from the Strait of Gibraltar to th ...

238 Chapter 10 THE ROMAN EMPIRE MAP10-1The Roman Empire at the death of Trajan in 117 ce. Pergamon Carthage Rome Melfi Actium Ol ...

Republic In 509 BCEthe Romans overthrew Tarquinius Superbus, the last of Rome’s Etruscan kings, and established a constitutional ...

TEMPLE OF VESTA, TIVOLIThe Romans’ admiration for the Greek temples they encountered in their conquests also led to the importat ...

T he history of Roman architecture would be very different had the Romans been content to use the same building materials as the ...