Existing comment:
Attributed to Nazzano Painter
Etruscan
Red-Figure Kalyx-Krater (Mixing Bowl), ca 370 BC
Depictions of battles against Amazons, a mythical tribe of warrior women, were popular throughout the ancient world, but this scene is unusual. Here Amazons fight with satyrs: half-horse, half-human followers of the god Dionysos. The scene may refer to Dionysos's defeat of the Amazons during his conquest of India. Only ten vases are attributed to Nazzano Painter, who was one of the finest Etruscan vase painters. McGinness extracted a face and bird from the scene and reconfigured them in a new composition. |