The hero wears a chiton winged cap and high boots and holds a sickle shaped blade harpe in his hand.
Attic red figure hydria.
The three handles of the shape facilitated pouring and lifting.
Attic red figure kalpis kleophrades painter greek attic active 505 475 b c 40 6 38 4 31 cm 16 15 1 8 12 3 16 in 82 ae 7 open content images tend to be large in file size.
Later classical ornate subject s.
The last recorded examples of attic red figure pottery are from about 320 bce.
Helera is already in pollux s chariot that races past a statue of the goddess.
The dioscouroi castor and pollux abduct the daughters of leucippus from a sanctuary of aphrodite.
Hydria of kalpis type rounded shoulder function.
The kalpis is the rounded form of a hydria or water vessel favored by red figure artists in this period.
Red figure pottery is a style of greek vase painting that was invented in athens around 530 bce.
The added colours now include blue green and others.
Attributed to the group of polygnotos.
Sack of troy encircles the shoulder.
Expansive style with emotionally charged single figures and groups.
Comacchio valle trebba.
Red figure with purple white dilute washes and gilding style.
Crowded compositions with large statuesque figures are typical.
Greek attic on the shoulder chariot this vase was made at a time when the red figure technique was becoming established and the relation between glazed and unglazed areas was a matter of considerable experimentation.
Tomb 271 valle trebba.
440 bc 0440.
The final decades of attic red figure vase painting are dominated by the kerch style.
On this athenian red figure kalpis a tree bends over herakles and the lion indicating that the action takes place outdoors.
Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali.
Kalpis water jar ca.
Perseus decapitates the gorgon medusa.
This style current between 370 and 330 bc combined the preceding rich and modest styles with a preponderance of the rich.
Hydria signed on the shoulder by meidias as maker function.
Red figure pottery grew in popularity and by the early 5th century bce it had all but replaced black figure pottery as the predominant pottery type in athens.