Fragments of a terracotta amphora (jar)
On the body, obverse and reverse, Dionysos, satyrs, and maenads
Subsidiary panel on the obverse, satyrs and maenads
These fragments originally belonged to a rare and particularly engaging type of amphora in the Amasis Painter's oeuvre. The decoration consisted of the primary figural scene but also of a subsidiary frieze at the top of the panel. In addition to the black-figure technique, the artist employed simple outline to render the flesh parts of the maenads. This use of pure drawn line came into its own about 530 B.C. as the red-figure technique. The Amasis Painter and contemporaries such as Sakonides anticipated, in some works, the new manner of decoration.
Subsidiary panel on the obverse, satyrs and maenads
These fragments originally belonged to a rare and particularly engaging type of amphora in the Amasis Painter's oeuvre. The decoration consisted of the primary figural scene but also of a subsidiary frieze at the top of the panel. In addition to the black-figure technique, the artist employed simple outline to render the flesh parts of the maenads. This use of pure drawn line came into its own about 530 B.C. as the red-figure technique. The Amasis Painter and contemporaries such as Sakonides anticipated, in some works, the new manner of decoration.
Artwork Details
- Title: Fragments of a terracotta amphora (jar)
- Artist: Attributed to the Amasis Painter
- Period: Archaic
- Date: ca. 540 BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; black-figure
- Dimensions: .a: 2 3/4 × 3 1/16 × 3/16 in. (6.9 × 7.9 × 0.4 cm)
.b: 1 9/16 × 1 9/16 × 1/8 in. (4 × 3.9 × 0.4 cm)
.c: 1 5/16 × 2 × 1/8 in. (3.4 × 5 × 0.3 cm)
.d: 1 1/2 × 1 3/8 × 1/8 in. (3.9 × 3.4 × 0.4 cm)
.e: 5/8 × 1 7/16 × 3/16 in. (1.5 × 3.6 × 0.5 cm)
.f: 2 3/4 × 3 1/16 × 3/16 in. (6.9 × 7.9 × 0.4 cm)
.g: 1 × 2 5/8 × 3/16 in. (2.6 × 6.7 × 0.5 cm)
.h: 1 1/2 × 1 5/16 × 1/8 in. (3.8 × 3.3 × 0.3 cm) - Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Anonymous Gift, 1985
- Object Number: 1985.57a–h
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Amasis Painter
ca. 550 BCE
Amasis Painter
ca. 550 BCE
Amasis Painter
ca. 540 BCE
Amasis Painter
ca. 550–530 BCE
Amasis Painter
ca. 550 BCE
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