Este culture

The Este culture is an Iron Age culture in the Po Valley ( Northern Italy ), which is named after a town -like settlement. Este, originally located on the Adige, the altered its course in the 5th century AD, was a center of metalworking. The settlement at the beginning of the 1st millennium BC, developed at the crossroads of important transport routes. Essentially, only the fire cemeteries with rich offerings were preserved.

In addition to the Villanova culture in the Bologna and the Golasecca culture in the western part of the Po Valley existed, influenced by the urn field culture parallel to the Hallstatt period. Este mediated artistic and technical suggestions of the Hallstatt region to the south and Etruscan and Greek elements to the north. The figurative metalwork of Este show reacting south suggestions. Este was the center of the so-called Situlenkunst. Characteristic are with animals and ribbons decorated with character designs Situlae. Significant example of the Benvenuti - situlae (600 BC). The development of bronze sheet metal work can be monitored BC to the end of the 4th century. The Este culture survived the invasion of the Celts, and only their successors, the Venetians, went to the Roman Empire.

One writes the Este culture to the precursors of the Veneti (Italian Paleoveneti ). The Veneti were a buffer between the Illyrians, whose tribal area lay in the Balkans behind Trieste, and the Celts of the Po Valley. They had their own language and culture, which opened the Greek influence, but the Greek or Etruscan not imitated. The Veneti are continuing the tradition of the Este culture, as it went off in Este. In Veneto lives to this day a modified figurative art.