This finial, which originally decorated the top of a tall candelabrum, is an excellent example of Early Classical sculpture. A bearded warrior wearing a full panoply of armor assists his younger, beardless comrade, who has sustained a wound to his left leg or foot and is supported by the spear he once held in his right hand and by his friend's shoulder.
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Title:Bronze finial of two warriors from a candelabrum
Period:Archaic
Date:ca. 480–470 BCE
Culture:Etruscan
Medium:Bronze
Dimensions:H. (with base) 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm)
Classification:Bronzes
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1947
Object Number:47.11.3
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Redmond, Roland L. and Dudley T. Easby Jr. 1948. "Report of the Trustees for the Year 1947." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 7(1): p. 17.
Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1950. Small Sculptures in Bronze: A Picture Book. p. 17, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Teitz, Richard Stuart. 1967. Masterpieces of Etruscan Art. no. 46, pp. 57–58, 153, Worcester, Mass.: Davis Press.
Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1970. Masterpieces of Fifty Centuries. New York: Dutton.
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Brendel, Otto J. 1978. Etruscan Art. pp. 300–1, fig. 219, New York: Penguin Books.
Hostetter, Eric. 1979. "Warriors from Spina." Bronzes hellénistiques et romains: tradition et renouveau; actes du Ve Colloque International sur les Bronzes Antiques, Lausanne, 8-13 mai 1978, Cahiers d'archéologie romande de la Bibliothèque historique vaudoise, 17. pp. 142, 151, fig, 7, n. 8, pl. 86, Lausanne: E. de Boccard.
Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 331, pp. 288, 472, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
de Puma, Richard Daniel. 2013. Etruscan Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 5.12, pp. 4, 11, 152, New Haven and London: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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