1966.23, Neck amphora: grazing stags and a snake, Etrusco-Corinthian, 6th century BCE, ceramic

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Unlike the hard, intellectual clarity of form seen in Greek pottery, Etruscan ceramics have a soft and romantic quality. The earth colors and matte textures of this amphora give the vase a sensuous, coloristic effect, although the motif of the animals grazing is derived from Greek prototypes. The crisp outline of the and strong light/dark contrasts of Greek vase paintings have been abandoned in favor of matte earth tones, textural hatching, and elongated line. The hard intellectual clarity of Greek design is replaced by a sensuous romanticism.

Excerpt from

Anne Bromberg, DMA unpublished material, April 2001.
Anne Bromberg, Dallas Museum of Art: Selected Works, (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1983), 103.

NOTES

Notes from visit of 24 April 1987 with arielle Kozloff and Carlos Picon

"Arielle advised that we get in touch with the Getty about vase conservation. She was very bothered by the way in which some of the textured areas were handled so abstractly. She said that you can thermoluminesce such a piece and that you still would not know whether the incising was authentic; instead you would have to judge it strictly on stylistic grounds. She also advised contacting Dr. Brigitte Ginge at Oxford about this piece."

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Etruscan neck amphora: grazing stags and a snake

Etruria: Mastery of Metalwork

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PROVENANCE

Until 1966: Elie Borowski, Basel, Switzerland [1]

From 1966: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, purchased from above, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil H. Green [2]

[1] See invoice in Collections Records Object File (1966.23)

[2] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.

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General Description

Unlike the hard, intellectual clarity of form seen in Greek pottery, Etruscan ceramics have a soft and romantic quality. The earth colors and matte textures of this amphora give the vase a sensuous, coloristic effect, although the motif of the animals grazing is derived from Greek prototypes. The crisp outline of the and strong light/dark contrasts of Greek vase paintings have been abandoned in favor of matte earth tones, textural hatching, and elongated line. The hard intellectual clarity of Greek design is replaced by a sensuous romanticism.