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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 ...
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 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 .
He studied further at Rome and Athens and was then archaeological superintendent of south Etruria from 1964 until 1972. He has carried out numerous fieldwork campaigns in Etruria (Blera, Bisenzio, Bolsena, Montefiascone, Tuscania, Cerveteri, Ladispoli, Veii) and in other locations (Arcinazzo Romano, Saepinum, valle del Sinello, Festòs).
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 Centaur of Vulci; Phoenician metal bowls
Lars Tolumnius (Etruscan: Larth Tulumnes, d. 437 BC) was the most famous king of the wealthy Etruscan city-state of Veii. He is best remembered for instigating, and decisively losing, a war with the neighboring Roman Republic.