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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)

Artist/Maker
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
around 455 B.C.E.
Material & Process
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
Inventory No.
1976.31
Classification
Ceramics
Location
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
  • Beazley, J.D. "Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters." 2nd edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. p. 880, 14
  • Classical Art Research Centre. University of Oxford. "Beazley Archive Pottery Database.": https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/15C4DFC7-A331-40D0-A229-45EA534D7F1D. no. 211578

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

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