Plaque with Cavalry Battle between Greeks and Trojans

ca. 1550 (Renaissance)

8.9 cm 7 cm

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This plaque together with its counterpart (44.132), 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...

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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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माध्यम
painted enamel on copper
विधा
Enamels plaques

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