A Fragment for the Repertoire of Figurative Decorations on Incised Impasto: a Ship from Montalcino

Jacopo Tabolli
This paper presents the analysis of an incised impasto fragment, probably coming from the area of Montalcino (Castelnuovo dell'Abate, Siena) and characterised by a figurative scene. A warship, a winged animal, a goat, or ram, and, possibly, a siren appear in the remaining decorative scene. Despite an evident lack of skill in the incised lines, this 'new' document enriches the repertoire of late-Orientalising or early Archaic impasto productions. Considering the fragmentary nature of the artefact and the lack of a precise context of provenance, the exegesis of the figurative scene is complex. The association of a shipwreck scene with a siren (?) and a goat may possibly refer to the Odysseus nostos, in the more general context of well-known motifs, which recur, for example, on the white-on-red impasto amphora, eponym of the Pittore della Sirena-Assurattasche from tomb 17 of the Banditaccia necropolis near Cerveteri.

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Luca Quattrocchi Guttuso between Sartre and De Sica: Drawings for the Film Adaptation of The Condamned of Altona
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Jacopo Tabolli A Fragment for the Repertoire of Figurative Decorations on Incised Impasto: a Ship from Montalcino
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Gabriella Cirucci The So-called 'Stele del Palestrita' in the Vatican Museums. Fragments of an Historical Itinerary
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Roberto Bartalini “A place seen in a dream”. The restoration, a recent book and some annotations on the reliquary of San Galgano, known as the Frosini reliquary
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Gigliola Gorio An ante quem for the death of Jacopino da Tradate and an insight into his workshop
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Francesco Caglioti A Donatellian 'Madonna' deserving restoration in Terranuova Bracciolini
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Gianmarco Russo Lazzaro Bastiani and his Connoisseurs
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Rosanna De Gennaro On the Terracotta of Bonarcado and its Author: Alonso Berruguete?
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Felice Mastrangelo Agostino Cornacchini: an unpublished autobiography and various clarifications on his early activity in Rome
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Giovanni Agosti Pier Luigi Pizzi, on the side of Art History
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