Vulca
Etruscan sculptor
title: "Vulca" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["italian-sculptors", "italian-male-sculptors", "etruscan-ceramics", "year-of-birth-unknown", "year-of-death-unknown", "6th-century-bc-sculptors", "etruscans"] description: "Etruscan sculptor" topic_path: "geography/italy" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulca" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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Vulca was an Etruscan artist from the town of Veii. The only Etruscan artist mentioned by ancient writers, he worked for the last of the Roman kings, Tarquinius Superbus (who died in 495 BC). He is responsible for creating a terracotta statue of Jupiter that was inside the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill, and possibly the Apollo of Veii. His statue of Jupiter, which being made of terracotta had a red face, was so famous that victorious Roman generals would paint their faces red during their triumphal marches through Rome. Pliny the Elder wrote that his works were "the finest images of deities of that era...more admired than gold."
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References
- Jerome Jordan Pollitt. (12 May 1983). "The Art of Rome C.753 B.C.-A.D. 337: Sources and Documents". Cambridge University Press.
- Steven L. Tuck. (16 December 2014). "A History of Roman Art". Wiley.
- Gardner, Helen. (2004). "Gardner's Art through the Ages". Thompson Wadsworth.
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