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The Apollo of Veii is a life-size painted terracotta Etruscan statue of Aplu , designed to be placed at the highest part of a temple. The statue was discovered in the Portonaccio sanctuary of ancient Veii , Latium , in what is now central Italy , and dates from c. 510-500 BC .
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The Portonaccio Sanctuary of Minerva was the first Tuscan–type, i.e., Etruscan, temple erected in Etruria (about 510 BCE). [1] The reconstruction proposed for it in 1993 by Giovanni Colonna together with Germano Foglia, presents a square 60 feet (18 m) construction on a low podium (about 1.8 metres, considering the 29 cm foundation) and divided into a pronaos with two columns making up the ...
One of the best known examples of free-standing or isolated statue of this phase is the cult sculpture of Apollo of Veii, currently in the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia. [1] During this period important changes were made in sculpture also due to changes in the field of architecture and religion.
It has been over 50 years since the Apollo 13 mission to the moon captivated millions of people around the globe; watching, waiting and praying for the three souls aboard to return home alive and ...
Apulu (Etruscan: πππππ), also syncopated as Aplu (Etruscan: ππππ), is an epithet of the Etruscan fire god Εuri [3] [4] [1] [5] [6] as chthonic sky god, roughly equivalent to the Greco-Roman god Apollo.
Apollo of Veii, dating from around 510 BC, in the Villa Giulia museum of Rome. Fidenae and Veii were said to have again been defeated by Rome in the 7th century BC during the reign of Rome's third king Tullus Hostilius. In the 6th century BC Rome's sixth king Servius Tullius warred against Veii (after the expiry of an earlier truce) and the ...
The Apollo of Temple, the original name of an indoor arena at Temple University in Philadelphia now known as Liacouras Center Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Temple of Apollo .