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Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron and Son

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Seán Hemingway, curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, discusses early twentieth-century reproductions of works from Sir Arthur Evans's historic excavations of Minoan Crete and Heinrich Schliemann's Mycenaean Greece.

This lecture was recorded on September 9, 2011, in conjunction with the exhibition Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son, on view May 17, 2011, through June 17, 2012.

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Attributed to the Somzée Painter 

Period:
Classical
Date:
ca. 420–410 B.C.
Culture:
Greek, Attic
Medium:
Terracotta; red-figure
Dimensions:
H.: 14 1/2 x 11 1/16 in. (36.8 x 28.1 cm)
Classification:
Vases
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel G. Ward, 1875
Accession Number:
75.2.7

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 159

  • Description

    Obverse, Dionysos banqueting
    Reverse, three youths

    The scene presents an early form of the outdoor gathering—with or without repast—so favored in later Western art. Dionysos, the god of wine, reclines on a couch in a hilly setting with a spreading vine. A young man and an old satyr attend to the wine—worthy of notice is their calyx-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) decorated with a satyr and maenad, followers of Dionysos. In front of the god is a surface with bread and fruit. The woman at right brings grapes in a flat basket. Although the drawing is facile, the figures are substantial and individually characterized.

  • Provenance

    Said to be from the vicinity of Athens

    Before 1873, excavated in the vicinity of Athens; briefly, with Professor Athanasios Sergiou Rhousopoulos, Athens; by 1874, purchased by Samuel G. Ward from Prof. A.S. Rhousopoulos, Athens; acquired 1875, gift of Samuel G. Ward.

  • References

    Lüders, O. 1873. "Atena e Marsia." Bullettino dell' Instituto di corrispondenza archeological 8-9: 169.

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1875. Fifth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Association for the Year ending May 1, 1875. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 70.

    Sybel, L. von. 1879. "Athena und Marsyas." Gratulationsschrift der Universität Marburg an das Kaiserlich Deutsche Archäologische Institut in Rom. Marburg: Universitäts-Buchdruckerei (E. Friedrich), p. 15.

    Conze, A. 1887. "Athena und Marsyas." Jahrbuch des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 2: 193-195.

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1895. The Terracottas and Pottery of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in Halls 4 and 15. Handbook no. 2. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 130, no. 1753.

    Fraser, J.G. 1898. Pausanias's Description of Greece (translation and commentary). London, New York: The Macmillan and Co., vol. II, p. 294.

    Richter, G.M.A. 1917. Handbook of the Classical Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 126.

    Beazley, J.D. 1918. Attic Red-Figured Vases in American Museums. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, p. 183.

    Beazley, J.D. 1925. Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, p. 450, no. 5.

    Hahland, W. 1931. Studien zur attischen Vasenmalerei um 400 v. Chr. PhD Thesis, Philipps-Universität Marburg. Marburg: [s.n.], p. 55.

    Richter, G.M.A. 1935. Shapes and Names of Athenian Vases. New York: Plantin Press, fig. 38.

    Richter, G.M.A. 1936. Red-figured Athenian vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New Haven: Yale University Press; London, H. Milford: Oxford University Press, pp. 193-94, no. 153, pls. 152, 173.

    Beazley, J.D. 1942. Attic Red-Figure Vase Painters. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, p. 795, no. 4.

    Magi, F. 1939-1940. "Oinopion." Annuario della Scuola archeologica di Atene e delle missioni italiane in Oriente, n.s. 1-2: 70-71, fig. 8.

    Metzger, H. 1951. Les Representation dans la céramique attique du IV siècle. Paris: E. de Boccard, p. 24.

    Fuhrmann, G. 1950-1951. "Athamas." Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 65/6: 121, n. 1.

    Dugas, C. 1952. "Les Vases Attiques à figures rouges." Exploration archéologique de Délos XXI. Paris: Fontemoing et Cie, p. 65.

    Verhoogen, V. 1954. "Une Péliké retrouvée." Netherlands Year-Book for History of Art 5: 119-120, 124.

    Beazley, J.D. 1963. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, p.1159, no. 2.

    Gericke, H. 1970. Gefässdarstellungen auf griechischen Vasen. Berlin: Hessling, p. 134, no. 256, p. 137, no. 54.

    Braun, K. and T.E. Haevernick. 1981. Bemalte Keramik und Glas aus dem Kabirenheiligtum bei Theben. Das Kabirenheiligtum bei Theben 4. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., pp. 6, 7.

    Queyrel, A. 1984. "Scènes apolliniennes et dionysiaques du Peintre de Pothos." Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 108(1): 156, n. 88, 157, n. 91.

    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1986. Vol. 3, "Dionysos," p. 456, no. 369, pl. 339. Zürich: Artemis.

    Lissarrague, F. 1990. Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet: Images of Wine and Ritual. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, pp. 99-100, fig. 80.

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