shoulders, as in Greece.'33 Instead of appearing
http://www.pacho.com/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?d=nudiistgirl.net/tube/beach/ass-anal-fuck-pussy-beach-teens-russian-extreme.php/ , as in Greece, the Etruscan Apollo wears a
rounded mantle or tebenna, the ancestor of the Roman
toga. So do a great many Etruscan bronze statuettes,
Analyzed by Emeline Richardson as the antecedents of
There are really
numerous Etruscan statuettes of bare kouroi and
Nude dancing bodies (although these occasionally
wear something, a necklace, or shoes, to prevent the
Whole nudity of their Greek models).'134 Pliny tells
us, and the monuments reveal, the Etruscans and
later Romans favored figures of warriors, typically
wearing armour, rather than nude like the Greeks.'35
When individuals on the peripheries of the Etruscan world
learned to depict the life size human figure in order to
Signify a dead warrior, a hero, they imitated the
Such a barbarian
Above, it is flat, like a stele; underneath, its legs look like the
It's nude, but armed. Its nudity
presents a difficult issue.
reflect a local custom: this warrior, like the Gauls,
may have really fought naked. The fully armed
Warrior of Capestrano, from Chieti, is recognized
as an important figure by the ax on his left shoulder-and his huge helmet-but he wears the Etruscan sort of perizoma.137 Some years ago, the Capestrano Warrior reigned as a exceptional image, challenging to
explain in the context of the artwork of early Italy. In the
last 20 years other monumental statues of the seventh
and sixth centuries B.C. have come to light, allowing
us to see more clearly how artists in Italy responded to
the innovation of the monumental statues of kouroi.138
The idea of the kouros came from Greece indirectly,
by way of Etruscan art, w here the kouros is not naked,
but is dressed in a perizoma. In this way, the Etruscans interpreted Greek innovations for barbarian, nonGreek cultures.
antiquity.
The arms and their position-Venus pudica-are of
course not those of a kouros. A Greek artist in Italy,
FEMALEFIGURES
The contrast between mainland Greece and Italy in
the Archaic period in the matter of artistic nudity extends to female figures along with male. In http://postgame.com/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?d=nuderoad.com/albums/skinny-nudist-women-loves.html
Before traditions lived-spiritual, societal, and
Rite-occasionally
expressed in fresh, non-traditional artistic types.
The image of the naked female, banned from Classical Greek artwork, makes astonishing looks in
Etruscan artwork. Two examples will serve to reveal how
Otherwise this image was perceived. The first is the
Large scale statuette of a naked goddess, found in Orvieto, in the sanctuary of Cannicella, over 100 years
ago, in 1884. Its peculiar attributes have lately been
more closely examined.139 The amount, half life-size,
made of Parian marble, and quite definitely of Greek
workmanship,was broken,repaired,and reworkedin
NUDITY AS A COSTUME IN CLASSICAL ART
commissioned to make an image of a mother goddess,
for which the reigning Greek artistic style provided no
model, might well have produced such a odd work
as this one, whose bizarre appearance expresses a tension
between Greek artistic tradition on the one hand and
native religion and ritual on the other.
Another peculiarly Etruscan monument represents the
Manner in which the Greek custom of nudity was imported and transformed. Again, we have a astonishing
occurrence of a naked female figure. Afterwards in date, but
still earlier than the Hellenistic period, when the type
was taken in Greek artwork, we see husband and wife
under the curved tebenna, which functions as a blanket,
a symbol of their marriage. This kind of picture of a couple
does not appear in Greek artwork. In Etruscan art, also, it is
Exceptional: but the pose of husband and wife, united on
Etruscan, also, is the similarity
of their way of dressing-in this instance, their nudity.
Obviously, the Etruscans did not perceive the comparison
between male and female nudity, so characteristic of
Greek Ancient artwork.
who saw it? Was this nudity a hint of the affair of
the marriage bed? Or did it signify a kind of heroization of the couple, as ancestors, revealed in passing
dressed in the Greek manner, in a "heroic" nudity
considered fitting for the afterworld? We don't know.
Also associated with female nudity, or somewhat exposure, is
the frequent picture of the nursing or suckling mom,
a motif absent from Ancient Greek art. click , for example, symbolize the rite suckling and
adoption of the mature Heracles by Uni (Hera). The
myth is unknown in mainland Greek artwork. On an