Lion attacking a fallow deer, Etruscans

Lion attacking a fallow deer

Lion attaquant un daim (museum title)

Etruscans (Italian) (6th-2nd century BCE)

Movement: Etruscan art
Date: c. 510–500 BCE
Medium: Fresco
Collection: Tomb of the Bacchants, Tarquinia
Rights: Public domain

View the image on the museum's website ↗

Italy Antiquity Wall painting Tomb Lion Big cat Animal Wild Hunt Violence Combat Fronton Triangle Movement Composition Frieze Red Ocher Doe Game Line Fallow deer Etruscans Etruscan art

← All works by Etruscans

← Dancers in a grove (back wall)37 / 57Dancer with a lyre →

More works by Etruscans

Dancer with a lyre

Dancer with a lyre

Dancer

Animal frieze

Painted door between two attendants (back wall)

Painted door between two attendants (back wall)

Flute player and dancer

Flute player and dancer

Lion attacking a fallow deer (pediment)

Lion attacking a fallow deer (pediment)

Two dancers

Dancers around a large krater beneath two lionesses (back wall)

Dancers around a large krater beneath two lionesses (back wall)