Scythian Warriors Painting Wallpaper

This Scythian warriors painting wallpaper brings the ancient nomadic world of the Eurasian steppe to life through the art of Donato Giancola, commissioned for National Geographic magazine’s June 2003 “Masters of Gold” feature. Two armored horsemen in meticulously rendered gold regalia survey their herd as it surges across the open grassland beneath a storm-charged sky — the sheer scale of the steppe measured only by the mass of horses receding behind them. The Scythians flourished from roughly the 9th to the 4th centuries BC across the Pontic-Caspian steppe as supreme horsemen and extraordinary goldsmiths; their burial mounds have yielded some of the ancient world’s most spectacular metalwork, much of it now in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Donato Giancola’s official site showcases three decades of narrative illustration spanning science fiction, fantasy, and historical realism.