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Attic Red-Figure Calyx Krater
Creator
Aegisthus PainterPainter
All works by this person →Working in Athens in the period from about 480 to 460 B.C., the Aegisthus Painter decorated vases in the red-figure technique. His surviving vases suggest that he specialized in the decoration of large vessels. His work marks the transition from the Archaic to the Classical style in Greek vase-painting. The Aegisthus Painter's fondness for crowded, multi-figured scenes carried over from the Archai
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- about 470 B.C.
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek (Attic)
- Department
- Vessels
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 505c7d85-055e-4e88-bdfc-db66856db1a8
From the Getty Museum record
Side A: Orestes avenges Agamemnon's murder by plunging a sword into the chest of the seated Aegisthus. Clytemnaestra raises an axe against Orestes, but is restrained by Talthybius. A young nurse, one hand raised in a gesture of despair, stands between Orestes and Clytemnaestra, holding Orestes' infant son, Penthilus. A second woman (Erigone?) runs in from the right, pleading with Orestes to stop. Side B: five secondary figures. Two richly clad females (among them Elektra and Chrysothemis?) flee to the right past three staff-bearing men who face the opposite direction. The vase has been reconstructed from fragments and there are significant areas of loss.
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