Painter of Berlin 1899 / Neck Amphora / 515-510 BC

Painter of Berlin 1899
Neck Amphora
515-510 BC
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Creator Name: Painter of Berlin 1899
Creator Nationality: Greek
Creator Role: Artist
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: Painter of Berlin 1899
Title: Neck Amphora
Title Type: Primary
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: -51
Creation End Date: -51
Creation Date: 515-510 BC
Object Type: Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Classification Term: Ceramic
Materials and Techniques: black-figure terracotta
Dimensions: Diameter: 29cm, Overall: 39.8cm
AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number: 1970.16
Credit Line: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
Rights: http://www.clevelandart.org/museum/disclaim2.html
Style or Period: Greece, Attic, 6th Century BC
Context: The amphora was one of the most popular vase shapes towards the end of the 6th century BC. The expansive belly of this vase is well-suited to the more active and voluminous figures introduced in the 6th century.Side A: Herakles wrestles with the Nemean lionSide B: Dionysus celebrates a drunken thiasos (reveling scene) with satyrs and maenads.
AMICA ID: CMA_.1970.16
AMICA Library Year: 2003
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