Perseus Vase: Mount Holyoke 1929.BS.II.4

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Vase Catalog Number: Mount Holyoke 1929.BS.II.4

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Collection:	Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Summary:	Side A: goddess and woman. Side B: king.
Ware:	Attic Red Figure	Shape:	Nolan amphora
Painter:	Attributed to Polygnotos	Potter:
Context:	From Volterra	Region:	Etruria
Date:	ca. 450 B.C. - 440 B.C.	Period:	Classical
Dimensions:
Primary Citation:	ARV2, 1031, no. 44

Essay: Buitron No. 69

RED-FIGURE NOLAN AMPHORA

Lent by Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (1929 BS II.4)

Height: 13 in. (33 cm.)

Broken and repaired; some restoration and repainting in drapery. Under foot, graffito. Said to be from Volterra.

Side A: goddess and woman (Hera and Hebe?). On the left, a woman, possibly Hebe, the cup bearer of the gods. She wears a himation over her chiton and extends her right hand with an oinochoe. On the right, a goddess, possibly Hera, with lotus-tipped scepter and phiale. She wears a himation, chiton, and diadem.

Side B: king (Zeus?). A bearded man wearing a himation stands to right holding a lotus-tipped scepter.

On A, a strip of meander pairs alternating with saltires; on B, a strip of simple rightward key.

Attributed to Polygnotos [Beazley] ca. 450 - 440 B. C.

The style of Polygnotos is ultimately derived from that of the Niobid Painter (cf. Mount Holyoke 1932.BS.II.5), but it has much that is new in it: the lines are longer and more fluid, the figures softer and fleshier, the whole drawing broader and less archaic (Beazley 1918, 171). The figures on this vase have a certain nobility but are very schematized, and our identification is uncertain. The name of Polygnotos is known from his signature on five vases. Two other artists contemporary with him sign with the same name, and as Beazley suggests, all three may have taken the name from the famous mural painter, Polygnotos of Thasos (ARV2, 1027). The school of Polygnotos was large; the Christie Painter (Harvard 1970.108) was one of his most able associates.

Bibliography: ARV2, 1031, no. 44.

Keywords:

chiton, diadem, goddess, Hebe, Hera, himation, holding, man, oinochoe, phiale, scepter, wearing, woman, Zeus

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Archive Number Caption

1990.25.0001 Side A: scene at center Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

1990.25.0008 Side A: oblique from right Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

1990.25.0007 Handle: right of side A Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

1990.25.0006 Side B: oblique from left Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

1990.25.0005 Side B: scene at center Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

1990.25.0004 Side B: oblique from right Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

1990.25.0003 Handle: right of side B Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

1990.25.0002 Side A: oblique from left Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

1990.25.0009 Side A: goddess and woman Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

1990.25.0018 Side A: woman Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

1990.25.0017 Side A: woman, upper half Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

1990.25.0016 Side A: head of woman Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

1990.25.0019 Side A: woman, lower half Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

1990.25.0015 Side A: woman's oinochoe Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

1990.25.0014 Side A: woman's oinochoe and goddess's phiale Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

1990.25.0010 Side A: goddess Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

1990.25.0012 Side A: goddess, upper half Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

1990.25.0013 Side A: head of goddess Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

1990.25.0011 Side A: goddess, lower half Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

1990.25.0020 Side B: king Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

1990.25.0021 Side B: king, upper half Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

1990.25.0022 Side B: head of king Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

1990.25.0023 Side B: king, lower half Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

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