GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Until then, the greatest influence on Roman art and architecture had been the earlier indigenous Italian civilization of the Etruscans.

Detailed explanation-2: -Because of the widespread nature of the Roman Empire, Roman art took on attributes from Greece, Egypt, and the Etruscans. The influence of Greek art, however, is the most noticeable in the Roman style.

Detailed explanation-3: -Republican Roman architecture was influenced by the Etruscans who were the early kings of Rome; the Etruscans were in turn influenced by Greek architecture. The Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, begun in the late 6th century B.C.E., bears all the hallmarks of Etruscan architecture.