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Attic Red-Figure Column Krater
Creator
MysonPainter
All works by this person →Myson worked in Athens in the period from 500 to 475 B.C. decorating vases in the red-figure technique. He appears to have learned his craft in the workshop of one of the Pioneers, perhaps Phintias. His one surviving signature is on a krater dedicated on the Athenian Akropolis; it indicates that he was both a potter and a vase-painter. Although he made other shapes as well, Myson specialized in th
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- about 480 B.C.
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek (Attic)
- Department
- Vessels
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Horses and athletic training, two of the favorite activities of privileged Athenian youths, decorate this Athenian red-figure column krater. On the front of the vase, two naked athletes work out on either side of a clothed trainer, one with a javelin and the other holding weights used in the long jump. On the back of the vase, two youths walk along leading their horses. As was typical for this shape in the early 400s B.C., a frieze of animals in the black-figure technique decorates the top of the vase's mouth. The Greeks always drank their wine diluted, and the column krater was a vessel for mixing wine and water. A krater like this would have been used at a symposium or aristocratic drinking party, where the scenes decorating the serving vessels reflected the interests of the participants.
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