Due to their ethnographic and linguistic, as well as religious, political and cultural, particularities, the Etruscans were so different from the other peoples of ancient Italy that today we still speak of " the Etruscan enigma » ". Already in Antiquity, the Greek historian Herodotus affirmed that it was a people who emigrated from Asia Minor and established in Tuscany. On the other hand, at the time of the emperor Augustus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus claimed that they were indigenous inhabitants The "Etruscan question" remains open, but the key to understanding this village is not its provenance, but its formation Settled in the early first millennium BC in. the vast territory of central Italy Tirrena bounded by the rivers Arno and Tiber, very rich in natural resources, the Etruscans came to occupy, at the time of their maximum expansion, vast areas of the Po valley, up. to the Adriatic, and part of the coast of Campania. Even Rome was subject to the political and cultural influence of Etruria under the Etruscan dynasty Tarquinios, who reigned in Rome between the end of the 7th century BC and the last decade of the 6th century BC, the decline coming from the 3rd century. BC, when Rome was conquered, one after the other, all the powerful cities of Etruria, which lost not only their political independence but also their cultural and artistic autonomy (J. Manzaneque, 3/2/14) . Etruscan art was greatly influenced by Greek art, although it also exhibits Egyptian and Middle Eastern influences. Their direct influence is crucial to understanding many aspects of Roman art. His main contributions to Roman architecture are the use of the arch, the vault and the structure of the interior...... middle of paper ...... In Etruscan painting he is possible to see a clear influence of Greece and then, similarly, Etruscan painting will do the trick in Roman painting. It is very linked to the funerary world, since it appeared inside tombs, decorating them. Among the most usual themes stand out the scenes of funeral banquets and situations of daily life that served to surround the deceased with everything he had. The most used skill is fresco; the colors are flat and lively; the backgrounds are smooth and on them stand out the figures, in which it predominates over the drawing; there appear vegetation, birds, etc. ; perspective does not exist, it is a two-dimensional painting; we look for movement, even if it is often represented in a very conventional way (J. Manzaneque,3/2/14).