AP Art History MC #9 – Flashcards
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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
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