uch engraving shows the triplets Kabeiri, at the foot of Mt.Olympus with Mercury, Minerva, and a third unknown Goddess. Etruscan mirror engraving also came to include nude male and female figures. Etruscan craftsmen did not confine their talents to just mirrors, they also engraved on tombs, bronze or terra-cotta statues, or temple walls.A Bronze cistae# was another piece for an engraver to show his skill. The rectangular, or cylindrical shape allowed him to do a continuous piece that wrapped around the whole box. An artefact example of this is a cistae that was a wedding gift from a mother to a daughter. It shows a scene of an Argonaut ship pulling up to shore. The handles on these boxes were usually two figures with outstretched arms connecting at the middle of the box.Probably put best by the French Scholar Martha, “Etruscan art had the great misfortune of never having time to form itself,#” which is true in the sense that by the time their art really became known the civilization was on its decline, although it had great influences on renaissance art and Michelangelo.The Etruscans had a very musical background. They sang, danced, and played instruments as parts of celebrations and other ceremonies and rituals. The common musical instruments are wind instruments like the flute and the trumpet, and stringed instruments as the lyre, the harp, and the cithara.# The Etruscan people had percussion instruments as well, such as castanets. Also included in some paintings were pictures of zithers which are believed to be used as a nobler sound to accompany the flute.The trumpet was important in military ceremonials as well as some religious ceremonials. The flute was an important part of ceremonies in honour of Dionysus, the god of wine, in which women whipped themselves into a frenzy, tearing young animals apart and drinking their blood.# Dance in Etruria started out as just men and women dancing separately. The men ...
