Black-Figure Amphora

Description Etruscan artists imitated Greek black-figure ware during the later 6th through the mid-5th centuries BC. 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, and their dance-like poses and proportions are probably inspired by the wall-paintings of contemporary Etruscan tombs.

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

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902