volute krater - British Museum
Description. Apulian red-figured volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water). Designs black on red ground, with white accessories. Round the lip, (a) egg-moulding, (b) wave-pattern; underneath, (a) ivy-wreath and wave-pattern, (b) ivy-wreath and astragalus-pattern.
Louvre G 146 (Vase) - Perseus Digital Library
Decoration Description: Side A: Agamemnon walks to the left leading Briseis away by her right hand. He wears strapped sandals and a chitoniskos under his armor, which includes an elaborately patterned cuirass and added red baldric with sword. A chlamys is draped around his shoulders and he holds his spear in his right hand.
Mixing bowl (calyx krater) with the killing of Agamemnon
Dated to just before 458 B.C., when Aeschylus's play Agamemnon was first performed, the krater demonstrates how integral these stories were to popular culture in fifth-century-B.C. Athens. Both the vase painter and the playwright were reinterpreting tales …
Lucanian vase painting - Wikipedia
Lucanian vase painting was substyle of South Italian red-figure vase painting fabricated in Magna Graecia, produced in Lucania between 450 and 325 BC. It was the oldest South Italian regional style. Together with Sicilian and Paestan vase painting, it formed a …
Mixing bowl (calyx-krater) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Description ITALIAN VASE PAINTING in ITALY, #166 (1970.487) Calyx-Krater Faliscan Attributed to the Nazzano Painter (Cahn) about 380-360 B.C.
Mixing bowl (volute krater) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Agamemnon (Greek) approaches from the left, holding a scepter with an eagle finial in his right hand. He wears an embroidered, long-sleeved tunic, embades, and a swirling himation. Agamemnon is followed by the younger Phorbas (Greek), who wears embades, a chlamys, and a yellow pilos, and rests a spear on his left shoulder.
Greek, Boeotian | Hellenistic - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This vase belongs to a select group of bowls decorated in relief with scenes from epic poetry and from Classical Greek tragedy. Depicted here are five scenes from Euripides's play Iphigenia at Aulis, including inscriptions that identify the figures.
Greek Vase-Painting, an introduction - Smarthistory
To produce the characteristic red and black colors found on vases, Greek craftsmen used liquid clay as paint (termed “slip”) and perfected a complicated three-stage firing process. Not only did the pots have to be stacked in the kiln in a specific manner, but …
The Murder of Agamemnon - Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Murder of Agamemnon. c. 1630 Theodor van Thulden (Flemish, 1606–1669) After Francesco Primaticcio (Italian, 1504–1570) , and Niccolò dell'Abbate (Italian, 1509 or 1512–1571) Object Details. Titles:
The only scene of the death of Agamemnon to survive from Attic painting has recently come into the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It is on a large red-figure calyx krater attributed to the Dokimasia Painter. The vase illustrates the two principal acts of the Oresteia and ought to be close in date to Aischylos' trilogy, first ...
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