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Apulian Red-Figure Calyx Krater Fragment
Creator
Underworld PainterPainter
All works by this person →Working in the Greek colonies in Apulia in South Italy, the Underworld Painter decorated vases in the red-figure technique. A student of the Darius Painter, one of the most influential Apulian vase-painters, the Underworld Painter specialized in the decoration of large vessels such as kraters and loutrophoroi. His work ranged from standard mythological scenes to occasional scenes drawn from the th
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- about 330 B.C.
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- South Italian (Apulian)
- Department
- Vessels
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Composed of three joined fragments, from the middle of a calyx krater. Supplication scene involving a seated male figure with four others. Above, sandaled feet and drapery of a figure facing left. To right, lower part of a shield (interior view) and a female figure who sits to the right. She wears a chiton and himation, and has a sceptre (Athena?). Below, at left, bearded male sitting with sceptre (Zeus or a king?). He looks towards an anxious-faced youth who holds a berried laurel branch draped with white beads. To right, a bucranion and the head of a second youth wearing a petasos (Hermes?). At the very right edge of the fragment, white arc with small white circles on the outside and petals of a rosette. Interior, black.
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