ART 258 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ancient Greek Temple, Death Masks, Death Mask
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Early years ruled by king but then had a republic. Come in contact with greek art that is much sophisticated than theirs. Shape is roughly that of a greek temple. Close to the tiger river that flows trhough rome. Portunus was a harbor god, god of commerce (import and export) Details that are greek- proper ionic columns. Continous freize with no carvings, open pendement. They havent discovered marble from italy it would have to import from greece. Simple doesn"t have all the cravings greeks would have. Its made from a local stone- mixture of stone. Stairs prominent and in front, temple on a pediment. The sides and back, theres columns but they are just decorations, on the wall- half columns/ engaged columns (engaged in the wall) They wanted it to look greek as possible, but they are using their temple differently than the greeks would. Hybrid shape and details come from greek, arrangements of elements is etruscan.
