Attic Oinochoe By The Centaur
The decoration of this jug illustrates the combination of technical ambition and artistic uncertainty that often appears in the very earliest red figure vases.
Attic oinochoe by the centaur. To avoid potential data charges from your carrier we recommend making sure your device is connected to a wi fi network before downloading. A graceful vessel with delicately curved handle and trefoil shaped mouth the oinochoe was revived during the renaissance and again during the neoclassical period of the 18th. 22 x 9 3 cm 8 11 16 x 3 11 16 in external link. Open content images tend to be large in file size.
Attributed to the nikias painter. χέω khéō i pour sense wine pourer. An oenochoe also spelled oinochoe ancient greek. Black figure pottery painting also known as the black figure style or black figure ceramic greek μελανόμορφα melanomorpha is one of the styles of painting on antique greek vases it was especially common between the 7th and 5th centuries bc although there are specimens dating as late as the 2nd century bc.
The oinochoe or oenochoe is one of the key forms of painted terracotta greek pottery. Heracles rides a chariot driven by the goddess nike victory and drawn by four centaurs. To avoid potential data charges from your carrier we recommend making sure your device is connected to a wi fi network before downloading. 410 400 b c.
Centaur and bird snake and hare at the handle pair of eyes incised. Eretria painter greek attic active 440 410 b c 8 7 8 3 cm 3 7 16 3 1 4 in 86 ae 243. Centaurs were half man and half horse. οἶνος oînos wine and ancient greek.
The painting is attributed to the salting painter. An oinochoe oenochoe is a jug for pouring wine. Attic red figure oinochoe fragment part of 81 ae 218 1 douris greek attic active 500 460 b c 1 7 cm 11 16 in 81 ae 218 11. This combination of brute strength and strong instinct meant that they could be volatile and aggressive.
Akin to leagros group. The scene shown in red figure is the rape of the daughter of the athenian king erechtheus by the wind god. Lateral extensions of the handle at the rim end in plastic monkeys heads. Open content images tend to be large in file size.
Centaurs were half man and half horse. New latin oenochoë plural oenochoae english plural oenochoes or oinochoes is a wine jug and a key form of ancient greek pottery intermediate between a pithos large storage vessel or amphora.