Amphora with Running Satyrs

ca. 500-490 BCE (Late Archaic)

26 cm 42.5 cm

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Etruscan artists imitated Greek black-figure ware during the later 6th through the mid-5th centuries BCE. 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, a...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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