Hydria

Description

Earthenware kalpis with red figure decoration showing Perseus, Hermes and a woman: Greek, Attic, by the Villa Giulia painter, c. 460 BC

Museum reference

A.1872.23.11

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Hydria

Production information

Villa Giulia Painter, c. 460 BC (fl.)
Attica, Greece, Southern Europe

Date

c. 460 BC

Style / Culture

Attic, Ancient Greek

Materials

Earthenware

Physical description

Earthenware, red figure decoration

Associations

Depicted: Perseus
Depicted: Hermes

Exhibitions

• Artistic Legacies (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Beazley, ARV, 2nd edition, 623

Hoppin, Joseph Clark, A handbook of Attic red-figured vases signed by or attributed to the various masters of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. II (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1919), 465

Schauenburg, K., Perseus in der Kunst des Alterturns (Bonn 1960), 16-17, pl. 6.2

Zanker, P., Wandel der Hermesgestalt in der attischen Vasenmalerei (Bonn 1965), 8

Oakley, John H., 'Perseus, the Graiai, and Aeschylus' Phorkides', American Journal of Archaeology 92.3 (Jul, 1988), 388 n. 30

On display

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