Mars of Todi
The Mars of Todi is a near life-sized bronze warrior, dating from the late 5th or early 4th century BC, believed to have been produced in Etruria for the Umbrian tribe. It was found near Todi (ancient Tuder), on the slope of Montesanto, in the property of the Franciscan Convent of Montesanto.[1]
Description and Interpretation
The bronze warrior was an expensive
The work is a "typical military figure" with "conspicuously Etruscan" facial features.
The dedication is inscribed on the skirt of the breastplate.
The sculpture is currently held by the Museo Etrusco Gregoriano section of the Vatican Museums.[23]
References
- ^ Fred S. Kleiner, introduction to A History of Roman Art (Wadsworth, 2007, 2010 "enhanced edition"), p. xl.
- ^ Guy Bradley, Ancient Umbria: State, Culture, and Identity in Central Italy from the Iron Age to the Augustan Era (Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 92.
- ^ Jean-René Jannot, Religion in Ancient Etruria, translated by Jane K. Whitehead (University of Wisconsin Press, 2005), p. 165.
- ^ Jannot, Religion in Ancient Etruria, p. 136.
- ^ Bradley, Ancient Umbria, p. 72.
- ^ Bradley, Ancient Umbria, pp. 68, 71–72, 200.
- ^ Jannot, Religion in Ancient Etruria, p. 165; Kleiner, A History of Roman Art, p. xl.
- ^ Kleiner, A History of Roman Art, p. xl.
- ^ Brendel, Etruscan Art, 317.
- ^ Donald Strong and J.M.C. Toynbee, Roman Art (Yale University Press, 1976, 1988), pp. 32–33.
- ^ Kleiner, A History of Roman Art, p. xl; Otto Brendel, Etruscan Art (Yale University Press, 1995, originally published 1978), pp. 316–317
- ^ Erika Simon, "Gods in Harmony: The Etruscan Pantheon," in The Religion of the Etruscans (University of Texas Press, 2006), p. 55; Kleiner, A History of Roman Art, p. xl.
- ^ Kleiner, A History of Roman Art, p. xl.
- ^ Brendel, Etruscan Art, p. 317.
- ^ Graham Webster, The Roman Imperial Army of the First and Second Centuries A.D. (University of Oklahoma Press, 1979, 1998 3rd ed.), p. 2.
- ^ A History of Roman Art, by Fred S. Kleiner (2016), page 19.
- ^ Amanda Claridge, Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide (Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 393.
- ^ Jannot, Religion in Ancient Etruria, p. 136.
- ^ Bradley, Ancient Umbria, p. 73, note 127; Claridge, Rome, p. 393.
- ^ Lexicum Leponticum: Trutitis, http://www.univie.ac.at/lexlep/wiki/trutitis
- ^ Bradley, Ancient Umbria, pp. 71–72.
- ^ Claridge, Rome, p. 393; Giuliano Bonfante and Larissa Bonfante, The Etruscan Language: An Introduction (Manchester University Press, 1983, 2002 rev.ed.), p. 26.
- ^ "Musei Vaticani – Sito ufficiale".