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Attic Red-Figure Cup
Creator
MakronArtist
All works by this person →A vase-painter in Athens from about 490 to 480 B.C., Makron worked exclusively in the red-figure technique. He specialized in the decoration of cups but occasionally worked with other types of vessels. Unlike many other vase-painters of this period, Makron does not seem to have worked with a variety of potters, moving from workshop to workshop. Instead, he appears to have had a steady collaboratio
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- about 480 B.C.
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek (Attic)
- Department
- Vessels
- Institution
- Getty Museum
A satyr holding a drinking cup decorates the interior of this Athenian red-figure cup. Satyrs, part-human, part-animal companions of Dionysos, the god of wine, were a popular and fitting decoration for vessels intended for use at a symposion or drinking party. Stylistically the decoration of this cup fits with the work of the painter Makron, who worked during the early decades of the fifth century B.C. The artist used heavy lines of black glaze, actually raised from the surface of the vase, for large contours of the body. He then applied lines of diluted glaze, which fired brown rather than black, for smaller musculature. This varied intensity of line enabled the vase-painter to give a sense of mass and three-dimensionality to the satyr.
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