Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Etruscan Cinerary Urns with Reclining Figure and Battle Scene
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Etruscan Cinerary Urns with Reclining Figure and Battle Scene
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Image View:
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Urn (approx. 20 in height) with reclining figure of a man; detail one of the fighting figures, raking view showing depth
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Creator:
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unknown (Etruscan artist)
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Location:
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repository: Casa Buonarroti (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Via Ghibellina 70
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GPS:
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+43.769903+11.263758
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Date:
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ca. 2nd century BCE (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Etruscan
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Style Period:
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Greco-Etruscan; Hellenistic
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Work Type 1:
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cremation urn
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Work Type 2:
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relief (sculpture)
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Work Type 3:
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figurine
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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painted terracotta
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Technique:
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casting (process); modeling (forming); painting and painting techniques
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Subjects:
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death or burial; funerary art; military or war; mythology (Classical); portrait; Vanth
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Description:
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Violent deaths were a common theme in Etruscan funerary art. The motif of two warriors dying simultaneously, each at the hands of the other, was a popular image for ash urns, appearing hundreds of times. The fighters may represent Eteocles and Polyneices, the ill-fated sons of Oedipus who killed each other in a battle for the kingship of Thebes, but it is uncertain whether Etruscan artists or viewers would have looked for a specific Greek myth in the image. The top part of the urn would then have a reclining figure representing the deceased man or woman. (Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art [website]; http://www.metmuseum.org)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A3-E-CB-CURN-A04
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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