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Wine Cup (Kylix) with Theseus Fighting the Bull of Marathon

Wine Cup (Kylix) with Theseus Fighting the Bull of Marathon

Penthesilea Painter (attributed to)

The interior of the wine cup shows the Athenian hero Theseus capturing the Bull of Marathon. The exterior scene shows Theseus, king of Athens, fighting the sons of Pallas, who challenged his right to the kingship.
Artist
Penthesilea Painter (attributed to)
(Greek, Attic, active ca. 460-ca. 440 B.C.E.)
Title
Wine Cup (Kylix) with Theseus Fighting the Bull of Marathon
Date
ca. 455 B.C.E.
Period
Hellenistic period
Medium
Earthenware with red-figure decoration
Dimensions
6 x 17 15/16 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of the Stiemke Foundation in Memory of Walter H. Stiemke
Accession No.
1976.31
Classification
Ceramics
Geography
Greece

Related

1973, appeared on Swiss market [according to Dietrich von Bothmer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]; in a private collection (Germany), according to dealer Bruce McAlpine (London, England); 10 May 1976, sold by Bruce McAlpine (London, England, United Kingdom) to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art] *Missing shard is in the collection of the Louvre, acquired in 1863 from the collection of Giampietro Campana, Marquis di Cavelli (CP 11504). [Last researched by Chazen staff 2017-2018]

  • Powell, Barry B. "Classical Myth." 4th ed. Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003. p. 426, no. 15.9
  • Elvehjem Art Center. "Bulletin 1976-1977." Madison: Elvehjem Art Center, 1977. p. 1
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Ancient Etruscan and Greek Vases in the Elvehjem Museum of Art." University of Wisconsin Regents. Madison, Wis., 2000. pp. 63; cover, no. 42
  • Moon, Warren G, and Louise Berge. "Greek Vase-painting In Midwestern Collections." Chicago: The Art Institute, 1979. pp. 194-196
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Artscene." Vol. 9, No. 3, June/July/August 1993. p. 6

  • Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections: The Art Institute of Chicago, 12/22/1979–2/24/1980

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