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The Portonaccio Sanctuary of Minerva was the first Tuscan–type, i.e., Etruscan, temple erected in Etruria (about 510 BCE). [1] The reconstruction proposed for it in 1993 by Giovanni Colonna together with Germano Foglia, presents a square 60 feet (18 m) construction on a low podium (about 1.8 metres, considering the 29 cm foundation) and divided into a pronaos with two columns making up the ...
The temple of Juno was the greatest and most honoured in the city. [4] The largest visible monument is the sanctuary of Minerva from the 7th c. BC, situated along an important route just outside the city (at modern Portonaccio). Prior to their influx of wealth around the 7th century BC, the people of Veii preferred to worship their gods and ...
This is a list of the 136 National Register of Historic Places listings in Cook County, Illinois outside Chicago and Evanston.Separate lists are provided for the 62 listed properties and historic districts in Evanston and the more than 350 listed properties and districts in in Chicago.
Taylor, Laurel, "Temple of Minerva and the sculpture of Apollo (Veii)", Khan Academy essay Winter, Nancy A., "Monumentalization of the Etruscan Round Moulding in Sixth Century BCE Central Italy", in Monumentality in Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture: Ideology and Innovation , edited by Michael Thomas, Gretchen E. Meyers, 2012, University of ...
Another view. The Apollo of Veii is a life-size painted terracotta Etruscan statue of Aplu (), designed to be placed at the highest part of a temple.The statue was discovered in the Portonaccio sanctuary of ancient Veii, Latium, in what is now central Italy, and dates from c. 510-500 BC.
One of the best known examples of free-standing or isolated statue of this phase is the cult sculpture of Apollo of Veii, currently in the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia. [ 1 ] During this period important changes were made in sculpture also due to changes in the field of architecture and religion .
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ca.wikipedia.org Apol·lo de Veïs; Usage on es.wikipedia.org Apolo de Veyes; Usage on eu.wikipedia.org
Vulca makes Apollo of Veii, from Portonaccio Temple, now kept at Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome. The Nordic Bronze Age civilization ends and the Pre-Roman Iron Age begins in Scandinavia, according to the Oscar Montelius periodization system (approximate date). [1] Refugees from Teos resettle Abdera.