Dance in Art

Black-Figure Nikosthenic Amphora (Storage Vessel): Dancing Youths; Sphinxes and Lions; Satyrs and Maenads

Nikosthenes (Greek, Attic, active c. 545–510 BCE)

Medium:

ceramic

Collection:

Greek and Roman Art

Source:

cma

Rights:

CC0

Black-Figure Nikosthenic Amphora (Storage Vessel): Dancing Youths; Sphinxes and Lions; Satyrs and Maenads, by Nikosthenes (Greek, Attic, active c. 545–510 BCE), is a public-domain ceramic in the LODance gallery of dance in art. It's one of thousands of historic images tracing how dancing has been seen and celebrated across the centuries.