MAKE A MEME View Large Image Micali Painter - Black-Figure Amphora - Walters 487 - Profile.jpg Etruscan artists imitated Greek black-figure ware during the later 6th through the mid-5th centuries BC On this amphora two-handled storage vessel running satyrs gesture ...
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Keywords: Micali Painter - Black-Figure Amphora - Walters 487 - Profile.jpg Etruscan artists imitated Greek black-figure ware during the later 6th through the mid-5th centuries BC On this amphora two-handled storage vessel running satyrs gesture wildly beneath a procession of birds The vivid animation of the figures is typical of Etruscan art and their dance-like poses and proportions are probably inspired by the wall-paintings of contemporary Etruscan tombs between 500 490 BC terracotta cm 42 5 26 accession number 48 7 16193 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 place of origin Cerveteri Italy Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek black-figure pottery in the Walters Art Museum Micali Painter Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Dancing Sileni in ancient Greek pottery
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