Plaque with Cavalry Battle between Greeks and Trojans
This plaque together with its counterpart (44.133), each painted in "sfumato grisaille," were surely from a series set into a casket. One of the commanding figures is identified as Hector, the most valiant of the Trojans in "The Iliad," the Homeric epic chronicling the Greek c...
Artifact
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15850
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object
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normalized
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provenance
Collection of Baron de Theïs Sale, 1874, no. 55; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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1
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import
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Source image fields (5)
| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_44.132_Fnt_BW.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_44.132_Fnt_BW.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_44.132_Fnt_BW.jpg |
| imageCount | 1 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.132 |
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Medium
painted enamel on copper
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