Artemis Actaeon Attic Red Figure Vase
He is portrayed as a beardless youth wearing a chlamys cloak and a sheathed sword at his side.
Artemis actaeon attic red figure vase. Another of the classic greek vase shapes is the krater seen here. Classical art mfa p. Detail of artemis drawing her bow from a depiction of the death of actaeon. In this famous example by the pan painter we see the goddess artemis at left and the human acteon at right.
He falls to his knees with his head. Dec 31 2017 artemis actaeon the dogs greek vase athenian red figure bell krater. Name vase of the pan painter. Some lost elaborations of the myth.
Artemis shooting an arrow at aktaion who has fallen to the ground attacked by his hunting dogs. Artemis aims her bow at the hunter actaeon who is savaged by his hounds. What are the two versions of how herakles gets the apples of the. The function of the krater was to serve as a large mixing bowl for the dilutionof wine from an amphora and water from a hydria.
This style current between 370 and 330 bc combined the preceding rich and modest styles with a preponderance of the rich. I hope you have had the opportunity if at all possible to observe the breathtaking panoply of constellations now turning across the night sky along the band of the ecliptic plane. Lifting him on attic vases. Artemis slaying actaeon on the name vase of the pan painter early fifth century bc.
Apr 1 2015 explore callum s board actaeon on pinterest. Crowded compositions with large statuesque figures are typical. The added colours now include blue green and others. Artemis and acteon red figure krater.
On apulian vase. What role does artemis play in the myths of actaeon and adonis. See more ideas about mythology art greek vases. Catalogue raisonné caskey beazley attic vase paintings mfa no.
The goddess wears a head band a deer skin shawl and a quiver strapped across her back. Further materials including fragments that belong with the hesiodic catalogue of women and at least four attic tragedies including a toxotides of aeschylus have been lost. The final decades of attic red figure vase painting are dominated by the kerch style. Name vase of the pan painter.
Diodorus siculus 4 81 4 in a variant of actaeon s hubris that has been largely ignored has it that actaeon wanted to marry artemis. On a lucanian red figure vase herakles fights a geryon who has three faces on one head.