Bronze cista handle with Sleep and Death Carrying off the Slain Sarpedon, 400–380 BC, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Fragments from a temple pediment group in terracotta, late period, National Archaeological Museum, Florence. Cista depicting a Dionysian Revel and Perseus with Medusa's Head from Praeneste, 4th century BC. The complex engraved images are hard to see here. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Etruscan art was produced by the Etruscan civilization in central Italy between the 10th and 1st centuries BC. From around 750 BC it was heavily influenced by Greek art, which was imported by the Etruscans, but always retained distinct characteristics. Particularly strong in this tradition were figurative sculpture in terracotta (especially life-size on sarcophagi or temples), wall-painting, and metalworking, especially in bronze. Jewellery and engraved gems of high quality were produced.
Etruscan cast-bronze sculpture was renowned and widely exported, but relatively few large examples have survived (the material was too valuable and was later recycled). In contrast to terracotta and bronze, there was relatively little Etruscan sculpture in stone, despite the Etruscans controlling fine marble sources, including Carrara marble, which seems not to have been exploited until the Romans.
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