AP Art History

Art of the Etruscans

Themes:

'Life in Death"

"Fun, Female & Funerary"

CONTEXT:

1. Materials: Excelled in metals- iron, copper, silver, tin = huge export

2. Burials: Families along with servants are cremated and buried together-buried in mulch-chambered tumuli with items that showed economic status.

3. The Fresco depicted funerary games and banquets a very happy people

4. Social: Woman are allowed to participate at banquets and formal gatherings unlike the Greeks

5. Last Etruscan city fell to the Romans in 273 BCE ~ Roman citizenship granted to Etruscans in 89 BCE