AP Art History MC #9 – Flashcards
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According to D.H. Lawrence, "The Etruscans, as everyone knows, were the people who occupied the middle of Italy in early Roman days. . . " This opens his essay entitled Etruscan Places. This was one of the first modern essays to deal with the Etruscans and their art. What woud be the tone of this essay?
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That Lawrence highly valued the Etruscans and their art.
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The Etruscans shared a common linguistic heritage and religious beliefs, but they lacked?
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Political Cohesion
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What allowed the Etruscan Society to transform itself in the 7th century BCE
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Great material wealth
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the fibula excavated from the Regolini-Galassi Tomb illustrates motifs borrowed from the Orient, what can consist of Orient motifs?
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Walking Lions
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The column used on Etruscan temples issimilar to what Greek column?
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Doric
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Who provided an invaluable chapter in dexcribing Etruscan temple design
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Vitruvius
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During the sixth century BCE Etruscan favored monumental sarcophagi that contained what of the deceased?
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Ashes
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The typical tomb form found at Cerveteri is a?
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Tumulus
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Pedimental sculpture is extremely rare in Etruscan temple architecture, where did the Etruscan's normally place their narrative statuary?
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on the peaks of the temple roof
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In Etruscan Iconography what symbolized regeneration?
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an Egg
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Unlike Greek temples, Etrusan temples were not meant to be seen as sculptural masses so...
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The entrance was centered at the front of the structure
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What empire fell to Rome after a10-year siege?
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Veii
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The sarcophagus of Lars Pulena was made in the early second century BCE. His expresion was somber; although Lars Pulena is shown recling he is not at a festive banquet what did it truly illustrate?
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The decline in Etruscan fortunes
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How Romanized the Etruscans became in the 1st century BCE is notied in the
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Aule Metele
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What was used by archaeologists to explore tomb interiors
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a Periscope
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The banguet setting sen in the tomb of the leopards takes place in
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the open air
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the theme celebrated in both the tomb of the leopards and the tomb of hunting and fishing is. . .
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the joy of life
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the center for the bronze cista industry was located in
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Palestrina
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The wide, overhang roof of the Etruscan temple oculd function as
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a place of shelter
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what century marks the incorporation of Etruria into the roman empire?
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The first
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etruscan cemteries were
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arranged around a center pyramid
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Terracotta sarcophagi are most typical of
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6th century BCE
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The etruscans prefered what type of clay for sculpture?
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Terracota
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Etruscan artisans particularly excelled at?
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metalworking
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Etruscan art
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was a combination of motion and vitality
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the etruscans typically buried their dead
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in subterranean rooms arranged along a network of streets in a city of the dead
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the apulu of veii is made of
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terracotta
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the wall painting in the Tomb of the leopards portrays
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banqueters and musicians
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who decorated the ficoroni cista
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the argonauts
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Who is an etruscan god
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Tinia
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The greek historian herodotus declared the etruscans came from?
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lydia
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What century was the Regolini-Galassi tomb created in?
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7th century BCE
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An etruscan temple was entered from
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the front
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the etruscan temple differed from the Greek temple because it had?
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3 cellas
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the etruscans preferred what for their temples
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wood and mudbrick
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Most architectural sculpture was made to decorate what part of the etruscan temple?
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the roof
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by the sixth century BCE the etruscans were controlled by
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north and central italy
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the etuscans becvame citizens of what empire in the first centure BCE
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Rome
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Dionysius of Halicarnassus maintained that the Tusci were?
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Native Italians
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the independen spirit and relative freedom etruscan women enjoyed horrified
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greco-roman male authors
