Egyptian Triptych

COLLECTION NAME:

The AMICA Library

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The AMICA Library

Collection

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AMICA ID:

DMA_.1966.22.FA

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DMA_.1966.22.FA

AMICA ID

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AMICA Library Year:

2003

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2003

AMICA Library Year

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Object Type:

Paintings

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Paintings

Object Type

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Creator Name:

Davie, Alan

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Davie, Alan

Creator Name

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Creator Dates/Places:

British, born 1920

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British, born 1920

Creator Dates/Places

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Creator Name-CRT:

Alan Davie

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Alan Davie

Creator Name-CRT

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Title:

Egyptian Triptych

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Egyptian Triptych

Title

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View:

Full View

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Full View

View

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Creation Date:

1965

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1965

Creation Date

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Creation Start Date:

1965

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1965

Creation Start Date

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Creation End Date:

1965

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1965

Creation End Date

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Materials and Techniques:

Oil on canvas

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Oil on canvas

Materials and Techniques

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Dimensions:

Overall: 84 x 144 in. (213.36 x 365.76 cm.)

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Overall: 84 x 144 in. (213.36 x 365.76 cm.)

Dimensions

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AMICA Contributor:

Dallas Museum of Art

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Dallas Museum of Art

AMICA Contributor

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Owner Location:

Dallas, Texas, USA

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Dallas, Texas, USA

Owner Location

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ID Number:

1966.22.FA

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1966.22.FA

ID Number

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Credit Line:

Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts Collection, anonymous gift

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Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts Collection, anonymous gift

Credit Line

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Rights:

http://www.DallasMuseumofArt.org

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<a href="http://www.DallasMuseumofArt.org"target="_new">http://www.DallasMuseumofArt.org</a>

Rights

false

Context:

Two stiff-legged stags with elaborate antlers graze with their heads to the ground. A third figure, that of a snake, follows the stags and like them is pointed to the right. There are no ornaments in the figured scene, but colored bands of white and red decorate the surfaces below the frieze, and rows of dots in white and black, in addition to black tongues, are painted above it. An X motif appears on the outside of the concave strap handles.The amphora belongs to the Polychrome Group of Etruscan vases first studied by Georg Karo in 1896 and treated more completely since then by János Szilágyi. The technique of incising figures onto a black background and the animal style that dominates the vases in the Polychrome Group were probably derived from Corinth. However, the incising technique was also certainly related to the long-established line of Etruscan "bucchero" vases. Certain aspects of the animal style are also found on the later polychrome vases from the Group workshops. The figures are incised directly onto a black glazed field with added white and red paint applied to various body parts in order to enhance the overall appearance of the animals. The creation of the animals solely by the means of incision on the dark background has an interesting visual parallel with similar images incised on bronze, such as the wild boars on the Apulian-Corinthian helmet in the Dallas Museum of Art (1966.8) collections.An amphora of the Polychrome Group now in the Louvre and listed by Szilágyi is decorated with a animals nearly identical in type, pose, and placement to those on the Dallas Museum of Art vase, except that the artist has included a lion between the grazing stags. Herbert Hoffmann has noted another Polychrome amphora on the Swiss art market and believes it to be by the same hand that decorated the Dallas Museum of Art vase."Gods, Men, and Heroes," page 85

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Two stiff-legged stags with elaborate antlers graze with their heads to the ground. A third figure, that of a snake, follows the stags and like them is pointed to the right. There are no ornaments in the figured scene, but colored bands of white and red decorate the surfaces below the frieze, and rows of dots in white and black, in addition to black tongues, are painted above it. An X motif appears on the outside of the concave strap handles.The amphora belongs to the Polychrome Group of Etruscan vases first studied by Georg Karo in 1896 and treated more completely since then by János Szilágyi. The technique of incising figures onto a black background and the animal style that dominates the vases in the Polychrome Group were probably derived from Corinth. However, the incising technique was also certainly related to the long-established line of Etruscan "bucchero" vases. Certain aspects of the animal style are also found on the later polychrome vases from the Group workshops. The figures are incised directly onto a black glazed field with added white and red paint applied to various body parts in order to enhance the overall appearance of the animals. The creation of the animals solely by the means of incision on the dark background has an interesting visual parallel with similar images incised on bronze, such as the wild boars on the Apulian-Corinthian helmet in the Dallas Museum of Art (1966.8) collections.An amphora of the Polychrome Group now in the Louvre and listed by Szilágyi is decorated with a animals nearly identical in type, pose, and placement to those on the Dallas Museum of Art vase, except that the artist has included a lion between the grazing stags. Herbert Hoffmann has noted another Polychrome amphora on the Swiss art market and believes it to be by the same hand that decorated the Dallas Museum of Art vase."Gods, Men, and Heroes," page 85

Context

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