Nuragic sculpture

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Bronzetto

The sculpture of Nuraghic , or their handicrafts as proposed in all the historical and ancient societies closely linked with religion. There are testimonies of some categories of artistic handicrafts of the Nuragic culture in Sardinia :

  • of the bronze figures of the Nuragic culture (Italian: Bronzetto nuragico, plur. Bronzetti nuragici). Most of them originated between the 8th and 7th centuries BC. Chr.
  • of sculptures in stone as well as incised representations, on the surfaces of vessels or other objects such. B. the pintadere , stamp for decoration (in historical times of bread). It cannot be ruled out that it was also used for dyeing fabric or for tattoos.

Sculpture

The statues, which are not numerous but spread in different parts of the island, comes mainly from the sanctuaries and are especially bulls. A goddess has not shown real in contrast, it can only be to the chest, increases in some Baityloi or recognize by ceramic idols .

One object that is depicted more frequently and in different dimensions is the single-tower nuraghe . B. in a holder recessed in the ground, in the middle of the round "assembly hut" was found. It seems to have been some kind of altar . However, there is also no lack of representations of complex nuraghi with the reproduction of the mastio towering over the tower-reinforced bastion and the consoles that crown the walls. Such representations help to understand what the nuraghe towers originally looked like in the upper area.

In the final phase of its development, the Nuragic culture, which ended after the Iron Age , succeeded in producing an anthropomorphic sculpture at a time when a "Sardinian-Phoenician" aristocracy was probably already forming, although this was limited to Monte Prama in the hinterland of Tharros province of Oristano .

Handicrafts

Artistic value must be given to some architectural works, especially at the end of the Nuragic period, which were realized using the "isodomo" technique (isometric construction). This describes the use of perfectly crafted stone, which also had heels and decorative strips or other decorative elements. Especially numerous at holy springs and well sanctuaries but also at giant graves .

Other typical nuragic artistic objects are bronze bracelets with herringbone decorations or buttons of conical shape made of bronze (similar to those of today's Sardinian costumes).

Other utensils found in Sardinia that have decorations are razors, fibulas, some swords with ornate handles and blades. They are the result of imports from the Tyrrhenian area (first from the Villanova culture and then from the Etruscans )

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