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  2. Etruscan art - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Etruscan sculpture - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Chimera of Arezzo - Wikipedia

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    The Etruscan civilization was a wealthy civilization in ancient Italy with roots in the ancient region of Etruria, which existed during the early 8th–6th century BCE and extended over what is now a part of modern Tuscany, western Umbria, and northern Lazio. [9] The region became a part of the Roman Republic after the Roman–Etruscan Wars.

  5. Etruscan architecture - Wikipedia

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    Speculative model of the first Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus in Rome. The first building of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill was the oldest large temple in Rome, dedicated to the Capitoline Triad consisting of Jupiter and his companion deities, Juno and Minerva, and had a cathedral-like position in the official religion of Rome.

  6. Etruscan civilization - Wikipedia

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    The Etruscan language remains only partly understood, making modern understanding of their society and culture heavily dependent on much later and generally disapproving Roman and Greek sources. In the Etruscan political system, authority resided in its individual small cities, and probably in its prominent individual families.

  7. Monterozzi necropolis - Wikipedia

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    The painted tombs of the necropolis are the largest documentation of Etruscan pictorial art, and they are singular testaments to Etruscans' quotidian life, ceremonies, and mythology. [2] Some of the tombs are monumental, cut in rock and topped by tumuli , accessible by means of inclined corridors or stairways.

  8. Sarcophagus of the Spouses - Wikipedia

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    The Sarcophagus of the Spouses (Italian: Sarcofago degli Sposi) is a tomb effigy considered one of the masterpieces of Etruscan art. [1] The Etruscans lived in Italy between two main rivers, the Arno and the Tiber, and were in contact with the Ancient Greeks through trade, mainly during the Orientalizing and Archaic periods. [2]

  9. Winged-Horses of Tarquinia - Wikipedia

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    The high-relief of the "Tarquinia Winged Horses" is a fragment of the colonnade that supported the pediment of the most important temple of the ancient Etruscan city of Tarquínia, at the Ara della Regina, better known as the Major Temple of Tarquínia. Nowadays situated at the Province of Viterbo (region of Lazio, Italy). [1] [2]