The Art of the Etruscans
Influences on Etruscan art
Oriental
Greek (Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic under Roman rule)
Above: Stele with warrior, 3rd ct BCE.
Right: Funerary urn (Vaso Paolozzi), 7th ct BCE.
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Funerary urn with banquet scene on the lid. Terracotta, 7th ct. BCE.
The Centaur of Vulci (ca. 580 BCE)
Bronze statuette of a young woman
Date: late 6th century BCE
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 30 cm
Terracotta head of a youth
Date: 3rd–2nd century BCE
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: 29 cm
Bronze statuette of a youth
Date: late 5th century BCE
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 18 cm
Bronze statuette of solar deity
Date: 3rd–2nd century BCE
Dimensions: 25 cm
Bucchero pottery
The Apollo of Veii
Date: ca. 510 - 500 BCE
Medium: painted terracotta
Amber fibula bow
Date: ca. 500 BCE
Dimensions: 8 cm
Bronze perfume dipper
Date: 4th–3rd century BCE
Dimensions: 40 cm
Terracotta winged-horses from the Temple of the Ara della Regina, Tarquinia. Etruscan, ca. 350 BCE.
Terracotta cinerary urn
Date: 2nd century BCE
Dimensions: 72 cm
Terracotta statue of a young woman
Date: late 4th–early 3rd century BCE
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: 75 cm
Banqueting Scene
Tomb of the Leopards
Date: ca. 480–470 BCE
Tomb of the Dancers
Apulia
End 5th ct. BCE or mid 4th BCE
Tomb of the Diver
Date: ca. 470 BCE
Paestum
Parade chariot inlaid with ivory
Date: 6th century BCE
Medium: Bronze, ivory
Dimensions: 130 cm

Chimera from Arezzo, ca. 400 BCE, bronze, 129 cm
The Pila (Perugia)
Arringatore (orator)
Bronze
Date: 80 BCE