Bell krater mixing bowl origin athens date 450 bce medium terracotta decorated in the red figure technique dimensions h.
Attic red figure bell krater.
Artemis aims her bow at the hunter actaeon who is savaged by his hounds.
The absence of a foot suggests that the vase was placed on a base or support.
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Terracotta bell krater bowl for mixing wine and water part 3.
Their aesthetic influence extends into the present.
A bell krater is one of the forms of the krater a pottery vessel with glazed interior used for mixing wine and water.
The earliest preserved examples four by the berlin painter 3 arv 2 pp.
This type of krater is fairly rare in attic vase production but was frequently used by the berlin painter.
Symposiums were an eastern influence 2 in which the aristocracy would lie down and drink.
A variant of the bell krater the lugged krater characterized by the oblique positioning of the handles was used during banquets for mixing wine and water.
This bell krater is at the louvre.
Attic red figure bell krater c.
Henri matisse produced a similar painting intérieur au vase étrusque.
Around 1840 ferdinand georg waldmüller painted a still life with silver vessels and red figure bell krater.
Artemis shooting an arrow at aktaion who has fallen to the ground attacked by his hunting dogs.
Ryerson reference number 1922 2197 extended information about this artwork.
Besides the bell shape there are column calyx and volute kraters.
The bell krater is the last of the various types of krater to appear in attic red figure.
Polygnotos greek attic active 450 430 b c 13 4 cm 5 1 4 in 86 ae 218.
Are not earlier than 500 b c.
For example the well known curved shape of the coca cola bottle is inspired by greek vases.
Attic red figure bell krater fragment.
41 2 cm 16 1 4 in credit line gift of martin a.
Additions to attic black figure vase painters and to attic red figure vase painters 2nd edition.
This is a photo of a red figure bell krater 380 370 showing clytemnestra trying to awaken the erinyes.
He is portrayed as a beardless youth wearing a chlamys cloak and a sheathed sword at his side.
One major type of funerary vase was the krater a mixing bowl for wine and water used by elite greek males at symposiums.
Name vase of the pan painter.
Terracotta bell krater bowl for mixing wine and water part 2 play or pause 2224.
Aktaion was a hunter and the goddess of the hunt killed him by turning him into a stag so that his own dogs tore him to pieces.
38 4 cm 15 1 8 in.
And two by the pan painter 4 arv 2 p.
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