Interior, Herakles and young boy Exterior, Herakles fighting the sons of Eurytos; Herakles fighting Ops
Euphronios is probably the best known of the early red-figure artists called the Pioneers. During the latter part of his career, he signs as potter rather than painter, and he collaborates with various painters of whom Onesimos is one of the most accomplished. The representation on the interior shows the almost coloristic effects that Onesimos achieved with dilute glaze as well as his marvelous characterization of Herakles—young, wide-eyed, jaunty, and finely turned out.
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Title:Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
Artist:Signed by Euphronios as potter
Artist: Attributed to Onesimos
Period:Late Archaic
Date:ca. 490 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; red-figure
Dimensions:H. with handle 4 15/16 in. (12.6 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1912 (12.231.2) Anonymous Gift, 1971 (1971.54) Gift of E.D. Blake Vermeule, 1972 (1972.39.1, .2)
Accession Number:12.231.2
Signature: Signed by Euphronios as potter
Said to be from Cervetri
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Richter, Gisela M. A. 1917. Handbook of the Classical Collection. p. 97, fig. 58, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1924. "Notes: The Euphronios Kylix." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19(3): p. 76.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1927. Handbook of the Classical Collection. pp. 115, 118, fig. 74, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1930. Handbook of the Classical Collection. pp. 115, 118, fig. 74, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. and Lindsley F. Hall. 1936. Red-Figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 39, pp. 60–63, pls. 37–39, 179, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1946. Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey. p. 77, fig. 59, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 73, 214, pl. 54d, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1958[1946]. Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey, Revised Edition, 2nd edn. p. 77, fig. 59, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Beazley, John D. 1963[1942]. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, Vols. 1 and 2, 2nd ed. pp. 319–20, no. 6, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Beazley, John D. 1971. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters [2nd edition]. pp. 358, 361, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Mertens, Joan R. 1972. "A White-Ground Cup by Euphronios." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 76. p. 271.
Williams, Dyfri. 1983. "Herakles, Peisistratos and the Alcmeonids." Image et Céramique Grecque: Actes du Colloque de Rouen, 25-26 Novembre 1982, Francois Lissarrague and Françoise Thelamon, eds. pp. 138, 140, fig. 8, Rouen: Universités de Rouen et du Havre.
Brommer, Frank. 1985. "Herakles und Theseus auf Vasen in Malibu." Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum, 3, Jiri Frel and Dr. Marion True, eds. p. 216 n. 123, Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum.
Sparkes, Brian. 1985. "Aspects of Onesimos." Greek Art, Archaic into Classical: A Symposium Held at the University of Cincinnati, April 2-3, 1982, Cedric G. Boulter, ed. p. 216 n. 62, Leiden: Brill.
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1988. Vol. 4: Eros-Herakles. "Eurytos I," p. 119; "Herakles," p. 824, no.1559, pl. 549, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1990. Vol. 5: Herakles-Kenchrias. "Herakles," p. 113, no. 2794, pl. 109: "Hyllos I," p. 581, no. 4; "Iphitos I," p. 739, no. 2, pl. 483, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.
Cohen, Beth and University of Chicago Press. 1991. "The Literate Potter: A Tradition of Incised Signatures on Attic Vases." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 26: pp. 64–66, fig. 26.
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