Interior, man courting woman Exterior, obverse and reverse, couples; each figure is named
Scenes with amorous encounters bring out Makron's particular talents. Not only does he dispose the figures easily in a wide variety of poses but he also revels in the depiction of women's drapery and the underlying body.
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Title:Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
Artist:Signed by Hieron as potter
Artist: Attributed to Makron
Period:Classical
Date:ca. 480 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; red-figure
Dimensions:H. 5 3/16 in. (13.2 cm) diameter 13 1/4 in. (33.7 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1912
Object Number:12.231.1
Signature: Signed by Hieron as potter
Inscription: Inscribed on the interior: "Antiphanes is most handsome; fair" for the woman. Exterior, Charinides with Aphrodisia; Sionysigenes; Lakrias and Naulkeia. (The latter is called beautiful); Nikostrate with Nikon; Kallistrate with Eulkes; Peleia with Nikosthenes.
Said to be from Vulci
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1913. "Department of Classical Art: The Accessions of 1912. Vases.." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 8(7): p. 154.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1917. Handbook of the Classical Collection. p. 99, fig. 59, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1927. Handbook of the Classical Collection. pp. 117–18, 120, fig. 75, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1930. Handbook of the Classical Collection. pp. 117–18, 120, fig. 75, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
McClees, Helen and Christine Alexander. 1933. The Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans: As Illustrated in the Classical Collections, 5th ed. pp. 55, 57, fig. 70, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. and Marjorie J. Milne. 1935. Shapes and Names of Athenian Vases. p. 25, fig. 166, New York: Plantin Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. and Lindsley F. Hall. 1936. Red-Figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 52, pp. 72–75, pls. 49, 51, 52, 180, New Haven: Yale University Press.
McClees, Helen and Christine Alexander. 1941. The Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans: As Illustrated in the Classical Collections, 6th ed. pp. 55, 57, fig. 70, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1946. Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey. p. 62, fig. 20, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1950. The Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks, 3rd edn. pp. 97, 441, fig. 288, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 73, 215, pl. 55d, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Bandinelli, Ranuccio Bianchi. 1958. Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale, Vol. 4. p. 31, fig. 42, Rome: Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1958[1946]. Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey, Revised Edition, 2nd edn. p. 62, fig. 20, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Beazley, John D. 1963[1942]. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, Vols. 1 and 2, 2nd ed. pp. 468, 482, 1565, 1602, 1614, 1654, no. 146, Add. 1, pp. 458–80, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Tiverios, Michalis A. 1989. Perikleia Panathenaia: A Krater of the Painter of Munich 2335. p. 119, Thessalonikē: Andromeda Oxford Limited.
Kunisch, Norbert. 1997. Makron. pl. 301, Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern.
Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd. 2002. "A Woman's View? Dress, Eroticism, and the Ideal Female Body in Athenian Art." Women's Dress in the Ancient Greek World, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, ed. p. 197 n. 74, London: Gerald Duckworth.
Lezzi-Hafter, Adrienne, Cécile Jubier-Galinier, Leslie Threatte, Jan-Matthias Müller, and Kristine Gex. 2016. Potters - Painters - Scribes : Inscriptions on Attic Vases, Rudolf Wachter, ed. pp. 144–46, Zürich: Akanthus Verlag für Archäologie.
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