Apulian Red-Figure Bell Krater Fragment

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Apulian Red-Figure Bell Krater Fragment

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Lycurgus Painter

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The Lycurgus Painter worked in one of the Greek colonies in Apulia in South Italy in the mid-300s B.C. decorating vases in the red-figure technique. One of the leading painters of the so-called "Ornate Style" of South Italian vase-painting, he was skilled at showing perspective and creating an illusion of spatial depth. His vases are filled with many figures, which are often placed in mannered pos

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Date: about 350 B.C.
Medium: Terracotta
Culture: Greek (South Italian, Apulian)
Department: Vessels
Institution: Getty Museum

Bearded man facing right with head turned to the left, with nude torso and chest hair. He holds or carries a large vessel, perhaps a lekythos, decorated on the body with a frieze of silhouetted figures below trigylphs. Above his head, traces of drapery. Interior black.

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