Bowl (dinos) with symposium scene
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Bowl (dinos) with symposium scene
Italic, Etruscan
Archaic Period about 530 B.C.
Ceramic, Black Figure
Height: 22 cm (8 11/16 in.)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Francis Bartlett Donation of 191213.205
Although you will find this piece to be an Etruscan art, Isn't the style similar to the Greek's black-figure pottery style?
Black Figure pottery is a Greek style developed during the Orientalizing period around the 7th century BCE. It is called "Black figure" since the figures on the vases were black, while the background was usually a pale color. Athenian artists adopted this technique and it turned to be a dominant style in Greece around the 6th century BCE, during the Archaic period. During the same period of time, the Etruscan art flourished in Etruria (Italy). I think that either the Greeks and Etruscans traded art pieces or one must have copied the style of the other.
(background info & dates taken from Art History, third edition, by Marilyn Stokstad)
Any thoughts on who might the artist was? I guess he was Greek...
I just do not think that the figures themselves portrait a Greek style; the faces, the body form...
Any suggestions to why it is classified as Etruscan art?
2 comments:
If you remember from our class discussion about this period of Etruscan art, one important thing to recognize is that it coincided with the Greek Archaic period. We can find various stylistic similarities in the arts between these two regions at this time.
A clear similarity can be seen in the life size sculpture of the time that grows out of influences from Egyptian contacts. For example, compare a Greek korous with an Etruscan terra cotta figure of the same century.
Also, we must consider the possibility of trade and other types of contact between these regions. It very well could have been made by a Greek artist either for an Etruscan patron or was brought to the region of Italy through trade.
I'm sure there are other possibilities as well :)
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