Etruscan Art

Art produced by the Etruscan civilization of ancient central Italy, mainly in modern Tuscany, Umbria and northern Lazio, from roughly the ninth century BCE until the Etruscans' political absorption into the Roman state by the first century BCE. Etruscan artisans are best known for engraved bronze mirrors depicting mythological scenes often drawn from Greek myth but retold with distinct Etruscan iconography and inscribed in the Etruscan language and alphabet, alongside painted tomb chambers, terracotta sarcophagi and architectural sculpture, all showing sustained contact with and adaptation of Greek artistic models while remaining a separate artistic tradition with its own workshops, patrons and religious purposes. Divinity Atlas artworks placed in this group are objects the holding museum attributes specifically to Etruscan manufacture, distinguishing them from the Greek originals or Greek-influenced Roman work that Etruscan artisans drew upon and that sit in this atlas's separate Ancient Greek Art and Ancient Roman Art groups.