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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.
The Apollo of Veii is a good example of the mastery with which Etruscan artists produced these large art pieces. It was made, along with others, to adorn the temple at Portanaccio 's roof line. Although its style is reminiscent of the Greek Kroisos Kouros , having statues on the top of the roof was an original Etruscan idea.
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 ...
Epithet of Śuri, Etruscan deity identified with Apollo. Tarquinia was his sanctuary. [40] Satre: Etruscan deity, source of, or derived from, the Roman god Saturn. [40] Selvans: God who appears in the expression Selvansl Tularias, "Selvans of the boundaries", which identifies him as a god of boundaries. But also Selvans Calusta (see Calus above ...
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 ...
The Etruscan-Phoenician Pyrgi Tablets [1] The Apollo of Veii [2] The Cista Ficoroni; A reconstructed frieze displaying Tydeus eating the brain of his enemy Melanippus; The Tita Vendia vase; The Sarpedon Krater (or, the "Euphronios Krater") - this is now at the Archaeological Museum of Cerveteri, it was at the Villa Giulia from 2008 to 2014; The ...
A statue is seen at the site of the discovery of two dozen well-preserved bronze statues from an ancient Tuscan thermal spring in San Casciano dei Bagni, central Italy, in this undated photo made ...
Etruscan sculpture was one of the most important artistic expressions of the Etruscan people, who inhabited the regions of Northern Italy and Central Italy between about the 9th century BC and the 1st century BC. Etruscan art was largely a derivation of Greek art, although developed with many characteristics of its own. [1]