Obverse and reverse, Apollo departing Mount Olympos in his chariot On the neck, obverse and reverse, athletes Signed by Polion as painter
In its scale, the pronounced architectonic articulation especially of the lip, and the Olympian iconography that concerns Apollo but features Athena on the obverse, this work is representative of Athens in its glory. The athletic scenes on the neck depict Athenians in a noble and peaceful context. The assemblage of gods who either converse or attend Apollo as he prepares to mount his chariot presents a similar combination of ease and dignity that characterized the gods gathered on the Parthenon frieze.
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Title:Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Artist:Signed by Polion as painter
Period:Classical
Date:ca. 420 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; red-figure
Dimensions:H. 23 3/16 in. (58.9 cm); H. with handles 26 5/8 in. (67.6 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Fletcher Fund, 1927
Accession Number:27.122.8
Signature: ΠΩ[Λ]ΙΩΝ:ΕΓΡΑΨΕΝ
Inscription: The names of the gods are inscribed.
ΠΩ[Λ]ΙΩΝ:ΕΓΡΑΨΕΝ
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Richter, Gisela M. A. and Lindsley F. Hall. 1936. Red-Figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 154, pp. 194–95, pls. 153, 154, 171, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1944, 1949. Greek Painting: The Development of Pictoral Representation from Archaic to Graeco-Roman Times. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1946. Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey. p. 145, fig. 112, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 101, 241, pl. 81a, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1958[1946]. Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey, Revised Edition, 2nd edn. p. 145, fig. 112, New Haven: Yale University Press.
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Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1988. Vol. 4: Eros-Herakles. "Hera," p. 714, no. 468, pl. 434, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.
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