Detail of an Etruscan Krater Attributed to the Nazzano Painter in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, June 2018

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Red-Figure Kalyx-Krater (Mixing Bowl) (Primary Title)
attributed to, Nazzano Painter, Etruscan (Artist)

Date: ca. 370 BC

Culture: Etruscan (Faliscan)

Category: Ceramics
Containers-Vessels

Medium: terracotta

Collection: Ancient Art

Dimensions: Overall: 19 × 19 1/2 in. (48.26 × 49.53 cm)

Object Number: 82.137


Depictions of battles against Amazons, a mythical tribe of warrior women, were popular throughout the ancient world, but this scene is unusual: here Amazons fight with satyrs, half-horse, half-human followers of the god Dionysos who often appear in Etruscan art. The scene may refer to Dionysos’s defeat of the Amazons during his conquest of India. The Nazzano Painter is one of the finest Etruscan vase painters, to whom only ten vases have been attributed.

Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-12969735