Tuesday, October 27, 2015


Capitolione wolf

From Rome Italy ca. 500-480 bce bronze Palazzo dei Conservatori, Musei Capitolioni, Rome
The she wolf that nursed the infants Romulus and Remus, founder of Rome

Etruscan temple

Model of a typical Etruscan temple of the sixth century bce resembled 
Greek temples but had widely spaced unfluted wood columns placed only at the front,walls on sun dried ,mud brick and a narrow staircase of the facade

Porta Marzia, Perugia, Italy

Second century bce porta Marzia was one of the gates in Pergia walls. The use of the fluted pilasters are engaged columns of the frame arches type flies Etruscan builders adaption of the Greek architectural motifs