ATTRIBUTED TO THE MICALI PAINTER, CIRCA 510-500 B.C.

Details

AN ETRUSCAN BLACK-FIGURED LIDDED AMPHORA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE MICALI PAINTER, CIRCA 510-500 B.C.
16 in. (41.8 cm.) high excl. lid

Provenance

Leo Biaggi (1906-1979), Lugano.
with Galleria Serodine, Ascona, 21 September 2000.

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Lot Essay

Flourishing between 525-480 B.C., the Micali Painter takes his name from the archaeologist Giuseppe Micali (1769-1844), who was the first to publish a group of the painter's vases in 1832. His workshop was most likely at Vulci, since a large number of his vases have been found there. He was the most prolific of all Etruscan black-figure vase painters with a lively and flamboyant style.

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