![]() ![]() 46050 BCE (Musée du Louvre) 5. The wounded warrior Telephos holds the baby Orestes hostage at an altar, with Agamemnon and Clytemnestra rushing to save their son. Niobid Painter, Niobid Krater, Attic red-figure calyx-krater, c. The depiction on the obverse recalls another famous prototype by Exekias (cf. The Toledo calyx-krater comes between the two it is partly a light vase and partly a dark vase. Two Furies flank her, while Jason and a distraught nurse and teacher approach the bodies on the altar below.Ī different tragedy unfolds on the other side of the vase, from Euripides’s Telephos (438 BC). In red-figure, the calyx-krater is a dark vase with light decoration the Exekian black-figure type is light with dark decoration. Seeking revenge against her husband Jason, leader of the Argonauts, Medea has just slain their two children. In this representation of the blinding of the Cyclops, Odysseus is wearing a mantle and a cap. Not attested before red-figure (like pelike, calyx krater, and psykter). Marie-Lan Nguyen/Wikimedia Commons Shaped like an inverted bell. Apulian bell-krater of the Gnathia style, c. Red figure is the reverse of black figure which executed detail by brush rather than engraving into the surface of the vase, which gave the artist more. Single copies (print, photocopy, download) are permitted for personal study, research and teaching. A Calyx Krater was a large vase used to mix wine with water. Side A of an Attic red-figure calyx krater, c. Framed in the center by a halo (recalling her sun god grandfather Helios), the sorceress Medea flies off in a dragon-drawn chariot. Detail, Death of Sarpedon, Attic Red Figure Calyx Krater Detail, Death of Sarpedon, Attic Red Figure Calyx Krater. The remarkable scene on the front of this vase relates to the famous tragedy Medea, written by Euripides and first produced in Athens in 431 BC. Red-figure earthenware with added white, red, yellow, and brown wash diameter of mouth: 49. Ceramic diameter of mouth: 49.9 cm (19 5/8 in.) overall: 50.5 cm (19 7/8 in.) diameter of foot: 22 cm (8 11/16 in.). Attributed to Policoro Painter (Italian). Near the Policoro Painter (South Italian, Lucanian, active c. Red-Figure Calyx-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Medea in Chariot (A) Telephos with Baby Orestes (B), c. ![]()
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