COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
AIC_.1980.75
AMICA Library Year:
1999
Object Type:
Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Creator Name:
Unknown
Creator Name:
Antimenes Painter
Creator Nationality:
European; Southern European; Mediterranean
Creator Nationality:
European; Southern European; Mediterranean
Creator Dates/Places:
Early Western World,Ancient Mediterranean,Ancient
Creator Dates/Places:
Greek; fl. c.530-510 B.C. Early Western World,Ancient Mediterranean,Ancient
Creator Name-CRT:
Greek (Attic)
Creator Name-CRT:
Style of Antimenes Painter
Title:
Amphora (Storage Jar)
Title:
Storage Jar
Title Type:
preferred
Title Type:
alternate
View:
view 1
Creation Date:
Archaic Period, c. 520 B.C.
Creation Start Date:
-525
Creation End Date:
-515
Materials and Techniques:
Earthenware, black-figure technique
Classification Term:
Vessel
Subject Description:
The amphora displays the larger part of the body painted with rich black Attic gloss, with white-ground used on the shoulder and neck. Black palmettes and tendrils are painted on the shoulder, and black-bearded satyr masks, wreathed in ivy tendrils, in outline on the necks. This is an important experimental piece, perhaps by the Antimenes Painter or a member of his circle. The Antimenes Painter was a fervent practitioner of black-figure during the first years of red-figure at Athens; he is known to have decorated hydriae with white-ground necks.
Creation Place:
Europe,Greece,Greater Athens,Athens
Dimensions:
H.: 39.4 cm (15-1/8 in.)
AMICA Contributor:
The Art Institute of Chicago
Owner Location:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
ID Number:
1980.75
Credit Line:
The Art Institute of Chicago, Costa Pandeleon A. Fund
Related Image Identifier Link:
AIC_.E27233.TIF
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