Dish or plate with Hannibal Encountering Roman Troops in Italy

A maiolica dish showing armored soldiers with plumed helmets and shields in a riverside encampment, with striped tents at left and right. Figures clash and gather along a winding blue stream, under trees and a distant hill, painted in bright blue, yellow, orange and green.

Look closer: A small group of figures stands in the doorway of the striped tent at the upper left.

Artist

workshop of Guido Durantino

Date

ca. 1550–60

Medium

Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3919 × 2940 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931