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Mixing Vessel (Bell Krater) with Two Youths, a Satyr, and a Woman

Mixing Vessel (Bell Krater) with Two Youths, a Satyr, and a Woman

Lucera Painter (attributed to)

The krater is a large, deep bowl used for mixing wine and water, and the bell krater has horizontal handles and a bell-shaped body. On one side a satyr is seated and holds a phiale; a woman offers him a bird and bunch of grapes. On the other two youths face each other, each with one bare shoulder and holding a staff. Above them are halteres or jumping weights, which are held by athletes during an event like our modern long jump. The weights suggest an exercise ground (palaestra), but the context is not athletic.
Artist
Lucera Painter (attributed to)
(Greek, active in Apulia, active from 340 B.C.E.)
Title
Mixing Vessel (Bell Krater) with Two Youths, a Satyr, and a Woman
Date
ca. 340-320 B.C.E.
Medium
Earthenware with red-figure decoration
Dimensions
11 x 9 3/4 in. overall
Credit
Gift of Lucien M. Hanks
Accession No.
68.13.1
Classification
Ceramics
Geography
Greece

Related

Said to have been excavated from a tomb at Lake Nemi (outside Rome, Italy); by May 1922, in the possession of Lucien M. Hanks, Sr.; May 1922 through 1968, loaned by Lucien M. Hanks Sr. to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Madison, WI); 4 June 1968, returned by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Madison, WI) to Lucien M. Hanks, Sr.’s son, Lucien Mason Hanks (North Bennington, VT); 4 June 1968, gifted by Lucien M. Hanks (North Bennington, VT) to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Trendall, A.D. and Alexander Cambitoglou. "The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, vol. 2 Late Apulian." (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982.
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Ancient Etruscan and Greek Vases in the Elvehjem Museum of Art." University of Wisconsin Regents. Madison, Wis., 2000. p. 74, no. 54
  • University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. "The Classical World: Aegean Art." Art History Image Search, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Online. Mar 7, 2003. <http://facstaff.uww.edu/henigec/imagesearch/index.htm>;

  • From the Head of Zeus: Davenport Art Gallery, 4/21/1985–12/30/1986

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