![]() ![]() A younger, clean-shaven, naked Herakles, simply bearing on his head the Nemean lion skin, sits peacefully in a luxuriant garden prefiguring the Elysian Fields, watching the golden apples which the Hesperides will bring him, symbolising immortality, being picked. The hero no longer fights the snake guarding the tree with the golden apples or carries the world on his shoulders in place of Atlas. ![]() The design forms two friezes around the body: on (a) above, the creation of Pandora, below, a chorus of Pans on (b) above, a chorus of women, below, a family of satyrs playing ball. However, this episode is depicted in a totally new light. calyx-krater Object Type calyx-krater Museum number 1856,1213.1 Description Pottery: red-figured calyx-krater. Created around the year 515 BC, it is the only complete example of the surviving 27 vases painted by the renowned Euphronios and is considered one of the finest Ancient Greek vases in existence. Red-figure earthenware with added white, red, yellow, and brown wash diameter of. He is rarely depicted performing his labours, with the exception of his stay in the garden of the Hesperides. The Euphronios Krater (or Sarpedon Krater) is an ancient Greek terra cotta calyx- krater, a bowl used for mixing wine with water. Artist: Attributed to the Painter of the Louvre Centauromachy. Attributed to Policoro Painter (Italian). In the figurative repertoire, Herakles holds a privileged position alongside Dionysos, but he is quite different from the hero of the classical era. The popularity of this shape is perhaps associated with local cult practices. The essence of these vase is the greater detail that the artists were able to get and the greater variation using brush-strokes rather than incisions. This accounts for the discovery of a number of Attic vases in Boeotia, notably in Tanagra.īased on these discoveries, the most popular type of vase in Boeotia was the chalice-shaped crater, which has a more slender form than in the previous century. EUPHRONIOS CALYX KRATER This is the first of a new type of vase, the RED-FIGURE type, which, as its name suggests, the opposite of the type we have looked at so far. Free for commercial use, no attribution required. Exports of Athenian ceramics to northern Greece, which began in the 5th century BC, continued throughout the following century. Download Image of Terracotta calyx-krater (vase for mixing wine and water). ![]()
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