shoulders, as in Greece.'33 Instead of appearing

Nude, as in Greece, the Etruscan Apollo wears a

rounded mantle or tebenna, the ancestor of the Roman

toga.

Examined by Emeline Richardson as the antecedents of

the Roman honorary togatus statue. There are really

numerous Etruscan statuettes of bare kouroi and

Nude dancing figures (although these occasionally

wear something, a necklace, or shoes, to avoid the

complete nudity of their Greek models).'134 Pliny tells

us, and the monuments show, that the Etruscans and

later Romans preferred figures of warriors, normally

wearing armor, rather than nude like the Greeks.'35

When people on the peripheries of the Etruscan world

learned to render the life-size human figure in order to

Symbolize a dead warrior, a hero, they imitated the

Greek kouros by way of Etruria. Such a barbarian

Above, it's flat, like a stele; beneath, its legs look like the

legs of a kouros. It's naked, but equipped. Its nudity

presents a tough issue.

On the other hand, it could

may have truly fought nude. http://mrboenk.net/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?d=freenudism.xyz/2020/04/page/13/ armed

Warrior of Capestrano, from Chieti, is differentiated

as an important figure by the axe on his left shoulder-and his huge helmet-but he wears the Etruscan type of perizoma.137 Some years ago, the Capestrano Warrior reigned as a unique image, hard to

Clarify in the context of the art of early Italy. In the

last 20 years other monumental statues of the seventh

and sixth centuries B.C. have come to light, enabling

us to see more clearly how artists in Italy reacted to

the innovation of the monumental statues of kouroi.138

The idea of the kouros came from Greece indirectly,

by way of Etruscan art, where the kouros is not nude,

but is dressed in a perizoma. In this manner, the Etruscans translated Greek innovations for barbarian, nonGreek cultures.

antiquity.

The arms and their location-Venus pudica-are of

course not those of a kouros. A Greek artist in Italy,

FEMALEFIGURES

The comparison between mainland Greece and Italy in

the Archaic period in the issue of artistic nudity extends to female figures along with male.

Previously traditions survived-spiritual, social, and

ritual-occasionally

expressed in fresh, non-traditional artistic forms.

The picture of the naked female, banned from Classical Greek art, makes surprising looks in

Etruscan art. Two examples will serve to show how

Otherwise this picture was perceived.

Large scale statuette of a nude goddess, found in Orvieto, in the sanctuary of Cannicella, over 100 years

ago, in 1884. Its particular features have lately been

more carefully analyzed.139 The figure, half life-size,

made of Parian marble, and fairly clearly of Greek

workmanship,was broken,fixed,and reworkedin

NUDITY AS A COSTUME IN CLASSICAL ART

for which the reigning Greek artistic style supplied no

model, might well have created this type of odd work

as this one, whose odd appearance expresses a anxiety

between Greek artistic convention on the one hand and

native faith and ritual on the other.

Another peculiarly Etruscan monument represents the

way in which the Greek custom of nudity was imported and transformed. Again, we have a surprising

Event of a naked female body. After in date, but

still earlier than the Hellenistic period, when the kind

was accepted in Greek art, we see husband and wife

under the rounded tebenna, which serves as a blanket,

a symbol of their union. Such an picture of a couple

Doesn't appear in Greek art. In Etruscan artwork, also, it's

Etruscan, too, is the likeness

of their way of dressing-in this case, their nudity.

Evidently, the Etruscans didn't perceive the comparison

between male and female nudity, so characteristic of

Greek Classical art.

who saw it? Was this nudity a hint of the intimacy of

the marriage bed? Or did it signify a type of heroization of the couple, as ancestors, shown in passing

dressed in the Greek manner, in a "epic" nudity

considered suiting for the afterworld? http://www.cboestockexchange.org/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?d=freenudism.xyz/tag/amateurnudist-teennudist-teen/ do not know.

Also linked to female nudity, or fairly exposure, is

the frequent image of the nursing or suckling mom,

a motif absent from Classical Greek art. Several monuments, for instance, signify the ritual suckling and

adoption of the adult Heracles by Uni (Hera). http://www.dr-drum.de/quit.php?url=https://freenudistpicture.net/tag/amateurfkkfkk/ is unknown in mainland Greek art. On an

Etruscan mirror from Volterra, the scene refers to a