Etruscan

What were the Etruscans hugely influential in?

Temple design, gladiator compact, engineering, religious rituals

Sarcophagus of the Spouses

520 BCE

Found in Necropolis

Painted terracotta 

Funerary art

Temple of Minerva and sculpture of Apollo (sculpture is above pediment)

510 BCE

Veii, Italy 

Original temple: wood, mud brick, tufa, deep porches

Master sculptor Vulca

Vitruvius: roman architect, wrote about it in his book, De architectura

Tomb of Triclinium

480-470 BCE 

Tarquinia, Italy

Tufa and Fresco

Fresco: form of mural painting in which earth pigments are painted directly on fresh, wet, lime plaster