Canosan White-Ground Amphora with Protomes: Medusa and Centaurs
3rd-2nd centuries B.C.E.
Cypriot
28.19
Not currently on view
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17-3/4 x 6-1/4 (diam.) in.
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Martha Delzell Memorial Fund
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Former Collection the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; purchased by the John Herron Art Institute, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, Indiana in 1928.
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Highly ornate vases like this one were made in Canusium, a town in Puglia. The winged head of Medusa adorns the front of this amphora, and centaurs project out from the sides. Very distinctive Canosan vases like this one mark the first incidence of a highly dramatic artistic style in Western art that later came to be termed “baroque.”
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