Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Red Figure Volute Krater
Image View:
Detail, side A, the deceased in depicted within a naiskos (grave shrine)
Creator:
Patera Painter (Ancient Greek vase painter, active ca. 340-ca. 320 BCE)
Location:
repository: Museo Nazionale Etrusco (Villa Giulia) (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Location Note:
Piazzale di Villa Giulia, 9
GPS:
41.918375 12.477657
Date:
340-320 BCE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Ancient Greek
Style Period:
Late Classical
Work Type 1:
red-figure vase painting (visual work)
Work Type 2:
volute krater
Classification:
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Material:
terracotta; colored slips
Technique:
fabrication attributes: ceramics; red-figure vase painting (image-making)
Subjects:
death or burial; funerary art; human figure
Description:
A prolific painter, active in Apulia, the Patera Painter was probably located first at Taras, then most likely moved to Canosa. Over 150 examples of his work survive, the majority of them depicting funerary scenes. The (A) side depicts the deceased within a naiskos (grave shrine); the (B) side shows two female figures at the sides of a stele. The volute-krater is named after its handles, which are curled like the volutes on an Ionic capital. Here there are female faces in the center of the volutes. (Source: Union List of Artist Names [online notes]; http://www.getty.edu /research/conducting _research/vocabulari es/ulan)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A3-E-VG-RFVV-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Red Figure Volute Krater