Etruscan civilization

700-500 B.C.E.

Before Rome became Rome!!

There was a brilliant civilization that control the entire peninsula of Italy. The Etruscans a vanished culture, whose achievement set the stage for Roman art and culture, but also for the Italian renaissance

The Etruscans were the first superpower of the western Mediterranean alongside the Greeks. They developed the earliest cities in Europe cities like modern Tuscany, Florence Pisa, and sienna. Etruscans were the first to establish and still continuously inhabited, since. They have been claimed as mysterious and enigmatic since none of their history or literature survived, which is ironic, considering the Etruscans were responsible for teaching, the Romans, the Roman alphabet and spreading literary thoughts, through

out the Italian peninsula.

Influence on ancient Rome was profound. It was the Etruscans that the Romans inherited their own culture and artistic traditions from gladiatorial combat, hydraulic engineering, temple design and religious rituals. Among so much more. In fact, the rituals were conceived by the Romans, and absorbed into their empire, the Romans still wanted Etruscan priesthood in Rome, which they would consult when under attack from the invading barbarians

We even derived are common word, person from the Etruscan mythological figure Phersu figure that you would see in the earlier, Etruscan tomb, painting, who would engage his victims in a dreadful game of bloodletting in order to appease all of the deceased, the original gladiatorial games, according to the Romans

Etruscan Art and Afterlife

Knowledge about Etruscan art comes largely from burials, since most Etruscan cities are still inhabited. Fortunately, though the Etruscans believed in sending they’re dead with everything necessary for the afterlife from lively tomb paintings to sculptures to pottery that could be taken to the afterlife. They conceived the afterlife in terms of life as they knew it when someone died he, or she would be cremated, and provided with another home for the afterlife. This type of hutch/urn made from clay would be used to house the remains, a miniature form of an Etruscan house, which would have looked like an Iron Age Etruria oval with a timber roof, and a smoke hole for eternal hearth.

During the orientalization when the Etruscans started to trade with other medieval cultures, they became very wealthy, and the tombs became more opulent a stroll through the Etruscan rooms in the Vatican museum, where the artifacts our housed is a representation of their enormous wealth of the period, a woman would be buried with her, brooches, her jewelry, and other things that she would need in the afterlife.

Nevertheless, the Etruscans were very powerful and influential, and left the lasting imprint on the city of Rome and other parts of Italy.