Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)
Obverse, two fighting warriors flanked by roosters
Reverse, swan between panthers
The Goltyr Painter is a prominent member of the so-called Tyrrhenian Group active during the later second quarter of the sixth century B.C. It is noteworthy that animal and figural subjects are depicted on the same scale, a practice that changes with the following generation of artists who establish the primacy of the figure. Tyrrhenian painters favored ovoid neck-amphorae, the majority of which were exported to Etruria.
Reverse, swan between panthers
The Goltyr Painter is a prominent member of the so-called Tyrrhenian Group active during the later second quarter of the sixth century B.C. It is noteworthy that animal and figural subjects are depicted on the same scale, a practice that changes with the following generation of artists who establish the primacy of the figure. Tyrrhenian painters favored ovoid neck-amphorae, the majority of which were exported to Etruria.
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)
- Artist: Attributed to the Goltyr Painter
- Period: Archaic
- Date: ca. 560 BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; black-figure
- Dimensions: H. 29.49 cm.
- Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1956
- Object Number: 56.171.15
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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