Renowned for his beauty, Ganymede was a scion of the Trojan royal house. Zeus desired him to be the gods' cupbearer on Mount Olympos. Representations of the late sixth and fifth centuries B.C. show Ganymede being carried off by Zeus himself; beginning in the fourth century, Zeus is replaced by an eagle. The Pan Painter perfectly depicts the boy as he runs along. The subject is fitting for a jug from which wine was poured.
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Title:Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug)
Artist:Attributed to the Pan Painter
Period:Classical
Date:ca. 470 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; red-figure
Dimensions:H. 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm) diameter 4 5/16 in. (11 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1923
Object Number:23.160.55
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Richter, Gisela M. A. 1927. Handbook of the Classical Collection. pp. 122–23, fig. 80, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1930. Handbook of the Classical Collection. pp. 122–23, fig. 80, 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. 65, pp. 93–94, pls. 69, 177, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Hall, Lindsley F. 1937. "An Exhibition of Drawings from Red-Figured Vases." Bulletin of the Metropolian Museum of Art, 32(1): p. 11.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1946. Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey. p. 95, fig. 68, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 84, 225, pl. 65b, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1958[1946]. Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey, Revised Edition, 2nd edn. p. 95, fig. 68, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Beazley, John D. 1963[1942]. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, Vols. 1 and 2, 2nd ed. pp. 558, 1659, no. 127, Add. 1, pp. 550–60, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Beazley, John D. 1971. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters [2nd edition]. p. 387, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1972. Greek Vase Painting: An Introduction. no. 22, pp. 44–45, 70, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1972. "Greek Vase Painting." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 31(1): no. 18, pp. 44–45, 68
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Vocotopoulou, Julie. 1975. "Le trésor de vases de bronze de Votonosi." Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 99(2): p. 739 n. 27.
Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1987. Greece and Rome. no. 37, p. 56, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Smith, Amy C. 2006. "The Evolution of the Pan Painter’s Artistic Style." Hesperia, 75(4): p. 449 n. 66.
Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 117, pp. 107, 428, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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