Etruscan Temple Architecture

Timeline

1. c. -600–-400Veii · LazioEtruscan city-states built hybrid timber-and-stone temples at sites such as Veii and Tarquinia, with high podiums and colonnaded porches as typical features, enshrining triads of deities.
2. c. -500–-200Tarquinia · LazioTemple ridges and cornices were adorned with painted terracotta statues and reliefs, tightly integrating architectural decoration with religious symbolism and reflecting the distinctive visual religious culture of the Etruscans.
3. c. -300–1Rome · RomeEarly Roman Republican temples inherited the Etruscan high podium, deep porch, and three-cell tradition, as in the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline, establishing the basic paradigm of Roman religious architecture.