Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Amazons / Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance / Unknown or Lost Prototypes / Warrior grasping hair of a mounted Amazon (gem)
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / Death of Troilus / Troilus killed by Achilles / The unarmed Troilus tries to escape on horseback and is chased by Achilles

LITERATURE

Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book X: Aeneas and Pallas, son of Evander, come to support the Trojans in the camp, Pallas is killed by Turnus / Turnus vanquishes Timeter (narrative context unknown)

Further details

This composition also in prints by Enea Vico (Bartsch XV.322.117), Battista Franco (Bartsch XVI.149.83), the subject-matter of the bronze (where the rider appears to be male, hence not an Amazon) has been described as Turnus and Timeter or as Achilles and Troilus

Artist or creator

Italian

Date

15th century (second half)

Location

Berlin, Skulpturensammlung (Bodemuseum) (inv. 959 (A. N. 567))

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Ernst Friedrich Bange, Die italienischen Bronzen der Renaissance und des Barock, 2: Reliefs und Plaketten, Berlin, Leipzig, 1922, p. 21, no. 159

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Web resources

Census database
British Museum (Franco's print after the lost gem)

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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