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Attic Red-Figure Skyphos Fragments (2)
Creator
Kleophrades PainterPainter
All works by this person →Working in Athens in the period from about 505 to 475 B.C, the Kleophrades Painter was a prolific vase-painter--more than one hundred vases attributed to him survive. He very likely was the pupil of Euthymides, one of the group of the red-figure Pioneers. He primarily worked in the red-figure technique but occasionally used the black-figure technique with enough facility that he may have been trai
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- about 480–470 B.C.
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek (Attic)
- Department
- Vessels
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 86e538b3-4f31-4068-ad58-8138729e371f
Two fragments of a partially reconstructed skyphos (93.AE.54) that depicts on side A: Peleus and Thetis, with their child Achilles, meeting Cheiron, in the company of Apollo, and on side B: a priest holding a temple key and a staff, a woman shaking hands with a seated figure, and two standing figures—perhaps the priest Chryses meeting Agamemnon to recover his daughter Chryseis (see Williams, 1997, who also notes other joining fragments in Leipzig). See individual records for descriptions.
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