Interior, youth and man Exterior, obverse and reverse, youths and men
The interior shows a man propositioning a youth. The composition is admirable for the easy juxtaposition of the figures, the characterization of the man by the purse and of the youth by the athletic equipment on the wall, and the emphasis placed on the hands in the center. The exterior shows young men with their older mentors or teachers. The fillets and wreaths indicate rewards for accomplishments.
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Interior, youth and man
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Title:Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
Artist:Attributed to Douris
Period:Classical
Date:ca. 480–470 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; red-figure
Dimensions:H. 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1952
Accession Number:52.11.4
Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1952. "Recent Accessions." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 11(3): pp. 100–1.
Beazley, John D. 1963[1942]. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, Vols. 1 and 2, 2nd ed. pp. 437, 1653, no. 114, Add. 1, pp. 425–47, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1972. Greek Vase Painting: An Introduction. no. 24, pp. 6, 48–49, 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. 20, pp. 6, 48–49, 68.
Shapiro, H. Alan and Lesley A. Beaumont. 2003. "Fathers and Sons, Men and Boys." Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past, Jenifer Neils, John H. Oakley, and Katherine Hart, eds. pp. 102–3, figs. 17a-c, New Haven: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College.
Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 115, pp. 106, 428, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin. 2011. "Sex for Sale? Interpreting Erotica in the Havana Collection." Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE, Allison Glazebrook and Madeleine M. Henry, eds. pp. 132, 144, n. 30, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
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. p. 40, Zürich: Akanthus Verlag für Archäologie.
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