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Highly ornate vases like this one were made in Canusium, a town in Puglia. The winged head of Medusa adorns the front of this amphora, and centaurs project out from the sides. Very distinctive Canosan vases like this one mark the first incidence of a highly dramatic artistic style in Western art that later came to be termed “baroque.”

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Highly ornate vases like this one were made in Canusium, a town in Puglia. The winged head of Medusa adorns the front of this amphora, and centaurs project out from the sides. Very distinctive Canosan vases like this one mark the first incidence of a highly dramatic artistic style in Western art that later came to be termed “baroque.”