--Bodies make “L” turn -Broad shoulders -Little anatomical modeling -Free hands -4 pieces joined 🡪 1 -Focus on the upper body, not the lower (legs)
--Married couple 🡪 ashes placed inside -Full-length portrait -Both held objects (egg 🡪 life after death) --Focus on upper body, not lower (legs) -Eating represents a banquet couch 🡪 celebration -symbolic relationship: man has a protective gesture around the woman; woman feeds the man; reflects on the high standing women had in an Etruscan society
-Displays the importance of the woman in Etruscan culture by displaying the woman with her husband -Serves similarly to the Kouros —Gravemarker —Indicative of burial practices
Context
--Found in an Etruscan tomb in a necropolis -there are two versions of this work -One in the Louvre in Paris -The other in the Etruscan Museum in Rome -The Etruscans were in Northern Italy just North of the Romans