Subject: ἱππεύς cavalry warrior

Culture: Archaic-Classical Greek

Setting: Greece/Italy 7th-5thcBC

Museum of Fine Arts > Art of the Ancient World *

"Attributed to the Diosphos Painter Oil flask (lekythos) Warrior restraining a horse

Greece, Athens, about 490 B.C. Probably from Sicily Ceramic, black-figure, semi-outline" ...

* Museum of Fine Arts > Art of the Ancient World

"Grave stele of a mounted warrior Greece (Athens). Said to have been found near Thebes, Boiotia, Greece

Late Archaic period, about 490-480 B.C. Marble, from Mt. Pentelikon, near Athens

This relief depicts a warrior who may have fallen in battle during the Persian invasions of Greece. The schematic folds of his cloak reflect the Archaic style of the sixth century B.C, [sic] but the naturalistic anatomy of horse and rider anticipates the early Classical style of the mid-fifth century B.C. The horse's head was probably turned toward the viewer, and this movement away from strict profile and frontal views also forshadows the Classical style." ...