Etruscan and Greek Art in Rome

It is difficult to provide overarching statements about the relationships that existed among these three different artistic traditions in part because the Greek especially and the Roman (to a somewhat lesser degree) extended for such a long period of time that there is no single Greek artistic style or philosophy. However, there were certain enduring aesthetic practices and beliefs in all three societies that allow us to make to some degree meaningful statements about their relationship. This paper looks in particular at the ways in the art of the Roman Republic combined elements of both Etruscan and Greek art.

Of these three civilizations, Greece - which at the height of its political power extended across not only what is now mainland Greece but also over a number of Aegean islands, Ionia (what is now the western coast of Turkey), southern Italy, and much of the Near East, including Egypt and Syria. Across this entire swath of territory, Greek art was dominated by two principles, both of w

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f all things" in the Raice Warrior (c. 460 to 450 BCE and "Herakles wrestling Antais", c. 510 BCE - both of which works also emphasize the attempts to recreate what the Greeks saw as the perfection of the natural form in their art. Of the three civilizations being considered here, the Etruscans are by far the least well remembered today and the least well documented. While this culture, which arose on Italian Peninsula and was created by the people Etruria during the 1st millennium before the Christian era was a mighty one, it was in most ways subsumed by the Roman civilization that followed it. We do not now even know where the Estruscans came from, although many scholars believe that they came from Asia Minor sometime at the beginning of the first millennium BCE. They certainly brought with them substantial Greek influence, which they helped pass on to Rome, a city that they began to rule in the sixth century before the Christian era. However, after they helped to transform Rome from an insignificant village into a substantial city, the Etruscans found themselves gradually but irrevocably losing power, and they would eventually be driven entirely out of the region. The Etruscans borrowed both form and substance from their Gre
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