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Storage Jar (Neck Amphora) with Herakles fighting Triton and Apollo

Storage Jar (Neck Amphora) with Herakles fighting Triton and Apollo

Chiusi Painter (attributed to)

This storage jar for solids or liquids shows the hero Herakles and the god Apollo wrestling for the Delphic tripod on one side. The greatest of all Greek heroes, Herakles was born of Zeus and a mortal mother; he has many stories told of him in addition to his twelve labors. On the opposite side Herakles struggles with the water-god Triton.
Artist
Chiusi Painter (attributed to)
(Greek, Attic, active ca. 520-510 B.C.E.)
Title
Storage Jar (Neck Amphora) with Herakles fighting Triton and Apollo
Date
ca. 520-500 B.C.E.
Medium
Earthenware with black-figure decoration
Dimensions
20 1/2 x 12 x 12 in. Overall
Credit
Elvehjem Museum General Endowment Fund, and Art Collections Fund, and Tenth Anniversary Fund purchase
Accession No.
1983.6
Classification
Ceramics
Geography
Greece

Related

Before 1935, this vase was on the art maket, and around 1935 it was purchased by the father of Karl Haug (Basel, Switzerland) [all according to dealers Gainfranco and Ursula Becchina]; 1975, to be sold by Karl Haug (Basel, Switzerland) [according to dealers Gainfranco and Ursula Becchina] to Antike Kunst Palladion (Basel, Switzerland) [run by Gianfranco and Ursula Becchina]; 23 January 1983, sold by Antike Kunst Palladion (Basel, Switzerland) to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]. [Last researched by Chazen staff November 2022]

  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Ancient Etruscan and Greek Vases in the Elvehjem Museum of Art." University of Wisconsin Regents. Madison, Wis., 2000. pp. 21, 51-52, no. 32; pl. 5
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Handbook of the Collection." Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, 1990. no. 3
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Bulletin 1981-1983." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1983. p. 87

  • Director's Legacy, A: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 10/7/1983–11/20/1983

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