Bronze handle with dogs flanking a reclining youth 4th century Etruscan This magnificent handle may well represent the sleeping Endymion, the beloved hunter of Artemis, who was granted immortality and eternal youth but also perpetual sleep. The subject is especially appropriate, since such handles are often associated with large bronze vessels that served as cremation urns. Closely parallel to this handle is a pair--one now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the other in the Antikenmuseum, Berlin--that comes from Città della Pieve, north of Orvieto (ancient Volsinii).. Bronze handle wi
Bronze handle with dogs flanking a reclining youth 4th century Etruscan This magnificent handle may well represent the sleeping Endymion, the beloved hunter of Artemis, who was granted immortality and eternal youth but also perpetual sleep. The subject is especially appropriate, since such handles are often associated with large bronze vessels that served as cremation urns. Closely parallel to this handle is a pair--one now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the other in the Antikenmuseum, Berlin--that comes from Città della Pieve, north of Orvieto (ancient Volsinii).. Bronze handle with dogs flanking a reclining youth 252965 Etruscan, Bronze handle with dogs flanking a reclining youth, 4th century , Bronze, H.: 7 x 9 9/16 in. ( x cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Fletcher Fund, 1928 ()
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