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Nuragic warrior from Padria Reconstruction of Nuragic dresses and panoplies based on bronze statuettes The Nuragic bronze statuettes ( bronzetti in Italian , brunzitos or brunzitus in Sardinian ) are typical Nuragic Sardinian bronze sculptures of the final phase of the Bronze Age and the early Iron Age .
The Nuragic civilization, [1] [2] also known as the Nuragic culture, formed in the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, Italy in the Bronze Age.According to the traditional theory put forward by Giovanni Lilliu in 1966, it developed after multiple migrations from the West of people related to the Beaker culture who conquered and disrupted the local Copper Age cultures; other scholars instead ...
Given the very close similarity between bronze statuettes and statues, the dilemma arises whether the statues were inspired by the statuettes (in the case of the statues being older than the statuettes) or if the statuettes are the model that the Nuragic aristocracy imposed to the artisans (in the other case the statues being younger than the ...
The items have gone on loan to Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum.
Numerous bronze and silver artefacts were found inside the temple, including Nuragic bronze statuettes of animals and fragments of a two-wheeled chariot from the 9th-8th century BC. [3] Among the bronze statuettes, the "village chief" (today preserved in the Museo archeologico nazionale di Cagliari - National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari ...
The Nuragic civilization in the Mediterranean island of Sardinia produced a large number of small bronze statues, known as bronzetti (Nuragic bronze statuettes), starting from the 12th century BCE. [6] The 7th-8th century Sri Lankan Sinhalese bronze statue of Buddhist Tara, now in the British Museum, is an example of Sri Lankan bronze statues.
A blind niche is a very shallow niche, usually too shallow to contain statues, and may resemble a blind window (a window without openings) or sealed door. [3] [4] [5] (Compare: blind arcade) In Gothic architecture, a niche may be set within a tabernacle framing, like a richly decorated miniature house , such as might serve for a reliquary.
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