Etruscan And Roman Influence On Ancient Greek Culture

The Getty Villa was extremely interesting learning more about Ancient Greece and Rome. One thing that I learned was about the Etruscans and that were around from 900 to 50 B.C. in the Italian Peninsula. From 474 to 454 B.C. this is when the Etruscans were defeated by people from Sicily and the Etruscans started to go down politically. Contrastingly, at this time art started to be a big cultural idea among Etruscans as they started to create art from metal such as sculptures. The Etruscans were known to take things like gold or copper and turn it into jewelry. They took parts of Greek ideals and values and made them a part of their culture or provided different variations of the Greek ideals. Also, in 300 to 350 B.C. the Romans started to take over Etruscan areas so they began to lose their own ideals as they did not rule their own land. This led to art forms that showed and expressed raw feelings but it also presented intense violence.

In 490 to 479 B.C. different cities among Greece got together to keep the Persians from taking over Greece. Fortunately this helped Greece successfully keep Persia from conquering them, and this is the point where Athens became an extreme monument in Greek culture. This is also when Greek art started to become less romanticized. The art started to become more realistic and the artist in Greece started to look more towards creating proportions. Also, in 323 to 331 B.C. the evolution of art in Greece took a step further as it was now not only trying to make art look more realistic to real life people but the art also was to depict the raw emotions of the work. Artist at this time wanted to expose the feelings and emotions that were being felt that was not always seen it earlier art