MAKE A MEME View Large Image Colmar Painter - Running Warrior - Walters 481920 - Detail(1).jpg The tondo of the kylix shows a youthful warrior with long curly hair He is nude except for his Attic helmet and holds a spear and a large round shield decorated with a horse ...
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Keywords: Colmar Painter - Running Warrior - Walters 481920 - Detail(1).jpg The tondo of the kylix shows a youthful warrior with long curly hair He is nude except for his Attic helmet and holds a spear and a large round shield decorated with a horse of which only the back is visible He seems to be running from an enemy on the left his head shield and spear are turned backwards left while he is fleeing in the opposite direction The artist skillfully explores the various angles of the twisted body and fits it nicely into the circular shape of the tondo The inscription in red translates to the boy is beautiful ca 510 BC Archaic terracotta With handles H 5 x W 15 11/16 x Diam 12 5/16 in 12 7 x 39 8 x 31 3 cm ; H at rim cm 12 accession number 48 1920 3127 Somzée Collection Brussels date and mode of acquisition unknown Sale May 20-25 1901 no 36 Sale Hôtel Drouot 1910 no 146 Jerome Stonborough before 1940 mode of acquisition unknown Sale Parke-Bernet Galleries October 18 1940 no 82 Charles L Morley New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum 1945 by purchase Museum purchase 1945 inscription In Search of Ancient Treasure 40 Years of Collecting The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1978 Heroes Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Frist Center for the Visual Arts Nashville; San Diego Museum Of Art San Diego; Alexander S Onassis Public Benefit Foundation USA New York 2009-2011 place of origin Attica Greece Walters Art Museum link 3127 long Retouched picture rotated cropped increased saturation intensity and contrast and used flood-fill to get uniform black background jarekt Colmar Painter - Running Warrior - Walters 481920 - Detail jpg <gallery>File Colmar Painter - Running Warrior - Walters 481920 - Detail jpg original</gallery> Walters Art Museum license 2D Ancient Greek red-figure pottery in the Walters Art Museum Colmar Painter Running in art People with shields in art Round shields Nude males in ancient Greek pottery Kalos inscriptions Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update Warriors in ancient Greek pottery
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