Attic Red-Figure Calyx Krater

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Attic Red-Figure Calyx Krater

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Berlin Painter

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One of the best red-figure vase-painters, the Berlin Painter worked in Athens in the period from about 500 into the 460s B.C. He was a technically perfect and prolific artist. About three hundred of his vases have survived. Almost all his work was in the red-figure technique, but he did try his hand at white-ground and black-figure. Although he did not invent the scheme of an isolated figure on ea

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Date
about 490 B.C.
Medium
Terracotta
Culture
Greek (Attic)
Department
Vessels
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
f7037471-b00e-415f-a7ac-4b745572dbd3

The primary record for a group of fragments belonging to nine different records of a partially reconstructed large krater decorated with a battle scene that includes Ajax with the body of Achilles. This small fragment of the rim (upper part and lower register) shows parts of three leaves of a palmette with enclosing tendril; spiral; top of central lotus-petal. Incorporates joined fragments 82.AE.124.16-20; 84.AE.972.1.

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