CIVILIZATION
ETRUSCAN
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Pottery models, Tomb paintings and Excavations
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Buildings, Museums and Houses
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Tables, Chairs, Desks
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Bridges, Roads, Cars
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Detailed explanation-1: -Constrained by a lack of fine stone, Etruscans built their temples of wood, with terracotta roofs and ornaments. Today the wooden superstructures have almost entirely disintegrated. Only the stone foundations and the terracotta roofs and decorations remain.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Etruscans were master bronzesmiths who exported their finished products all over the Mediterranean. Finely worked bronzes, such as thrones and chariots decorated with exquisite hammered reliefs (03.23. 1), cast statues and statuettes (17.190.
Detailed explanation-3: -The site contains very different types of tombs: trenches cut in rock; tumuli; and some, also carved in rock, in the shape of huts or houses with a wealth of structural details. These provide the only surviving evidence of Etruscan residential architecture.
Detailed explanation-4: -Etruscan painting technique was characterized by painting directly on fresh plaster so that the paint adhered to the plaster and thusly became part of the wall itself. Many surviving paintings are those on wall frescoes at burial sites.