440 BCE Medium Ceramic Credit Line Carlos Collection of Ancient Art. 450 - 420 BCE) Column-Krater Depicting Orpheus among the Thracians Culture Greek, Attic Period Classical Date ca.

Museum purchase with funds from the Volunteer Board Endowment Fund and the Curriculum Support Fund, 1988. Expand Featured Download View PDF Classifications Greek and Roman Art Artist Naples Painter (Greek, Attic, active ca. Again, two female attendants look on.īlack Figure Column Krater, ca. Late Corinthian pottery: Paris, Muse du Louvre, E 638, column-krater. The other side has a battle scene, two warriors fight over the body of a fallen third. It is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it. On one side, a wedding scene is painted with bride and groom in a four-horse chariot, accompanied by two women attendants and a musician playing a lyre. It is a complicated process, but put simply, the main decorative elements and figures are painted with a slip that turns black in the firing process. With him are three goddesses, probably his sister Artemis (facing him), together with Hera (wearing a crown and holding a scepter and libation dish), and Hebe, the daughter of Zeus and Hera, on her way to meet her future husband, Herakles.This krater is highly decorated with both designs and figural groupings in the Black Figure technique. The chariot scene on the main side of the vessel is a divine one, as indicated by the presence of Apollo, identified by his lyre and laurel wreath. Other vases by the Cleveland Painter are now in New York, Vienna, Paris, and Copenhagen, as well as museums in Greece and Italy.

Beazley, named him (or her) the Cleveland Painter, after our city. Since this column-krater is the most important of 12 vases painted by a Greek artist whose name is unknown, the great English vase expert, Sir John D.

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. Attributed to Cleveland Painter (name vase Greek, Attic, active c. Red-Figure Column Krater (Mixing Vessel): Apollo and Goddesses with Chariot (A) Komos (Revel) (B), c.

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