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Etruscan city wall Bedroom mosaic floor, Roman Villa of Ossaia, Augustan era Mosaic from the apsidial room, area 3, Roman Villa of Ossaia Etruscan Tumulus II of sodo The Fra Angelico Annunciation The prevailing character of Cortona's architecture is medieval with steep narrow streets situated on a hillside at an elevation of 600 metres (2,000 ...
The Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca (Museum of the Etruscan Academy) is a public archeological museum housed in the Palazzo Casali, also known as the town's Palazzo Pretorio, located in the historic center of Cortona, province of Arezzo, region of Tuscany, Italy. The museum entrance faces Piazza Signorelli, and is one house east of a facade of ...
The Tabula Cortonensis (sometimes also Cortona Tablet) is a 2200-year-old, inscribed bronze tablet in the Etruscan language, discovered in Cortona, Italy. [1] It may record for posterity the details of an ancient legal transaction which took place in the ancient Tuscan city of Cortona, known to the Etruscans as Curtun.
Etruscan architecture was created between about 900 BC and 27 BC, when the expanding civilization of ancient Rome finally absorbed Etruscan civilization. The Etruscans were considerable builders in stone, wood and other materials of temples, houses, tombs and city walls, as well as bridges and roads.
Representing the best surviving and most monumental of the Etruscan city gates it opens onto the cardo maximus of the city, corresponding to the modern Ulisse Rocchi Road. The arch is part of a massive set of walls which are 30 ft (9.1 m) tall and 9,500 ft (2,900 m) long made of travertine and set without mortar.
Etruscan vase paintings were produced from the 7th through the 4th centuries BC, and is a major element in Etruscan art. It was strongly influenced by Greek vase painting , followed the main trends in style, especially those of Athens , over the period, but lagging behind by some decades.
Inside the main entrance door to the upper church, a stone slab marks Cortona's burial place (died 1669) and there is a wall memorial with a bust of Cortona by Bernardo Fioiti in the lower church. The sculptures of the Evangelists in the pendentives of the dome are 18th-century additions sculpted by Filippo della Valle , Camillo Rusconi , and ...
Castiglion Fiorentino (Italian pronunciation: [kastiʎˈʎoɱ fjorenˈtiːno]) is a small, walled city in eastern Tuscany, Italy, in the province of Arezzo, between the cities of Arezzo and Cortona. It is known for its annual festivals and its Etruscan archeological site.