Attic Red Figure Bell Krater
Red figure bell krater 4 th century bce apulian fabric.
Attic red figure bell krater. He is portrayed as a beardless youth wearing a chlamys cloak and a sheathed sword at his side. Description two sided red figure bell krater used for mixing wine and water. Name vase of the pan painter. Artemis aims her bow at the hunter actaeon who is savaged by his hounds.
Attributed to the persephone painter obverse the ascension of persephone from the underworld reverse libation scene persephone the daughter of the goddess demeter was condemned to spend half of each year with hades the ruler of the underworld. 550 1 2 are not earlier than 500 b c. For example the well known curved shape of the coca cola bottle is inspired by greek vases. Terracotta bell krater bowl for mixing wine and water ca.
Courtship scenes in fifth century attic pottery. Around 1840 ferdinand georg waldmüller painted a still life with silver vessels and red figure bell krater. The bell krater is the last of the various types of krater to appear in attic red figure. This theme depicts the young man playing with his hoop and holding a cock on one side with zeus holding a scepter on the other.
F45 london british museum. Attic red figure bell krater fragment polygnotos greek attic active 450 430 b c 13 4 cm 5 1 4 in 86 ae 218 open content images tend to be large in file size. Interpreting portrayals of real women in ancient greece. 205 6 123 6 and two by the pan painter 4arv2p.
Artemis shooting an arrow at aktaion who has fallen to the ground attacked by his hunting dogs. Ganymede a young trojan hero considered to be the most beautiful of mortals was carried away by zeus who used him as his cupbearer on olympus. The earliest preserved examples four by the berlin painter 3arv2pp. He falls to his knees with his head.
Aktaion was a hunter and the goddess of the hunt killed him by turning him into a stag so that his own dogs tore him to pieces. A closer look at classical iconography by elizabeth neill class of 2013. Henri matisse produced a similar painting intérieur au vase étrusque. In the center stands a warrior whose long spear breaks the picture plane into two parts.