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Terracotta amphora (jar)

Red-figure The Berlin Painter · Amphora · ca. 490 BCE

Amphora. Greek, Attic. Late Archaic. Classification: Vases. Credit: Fletcher Fund, 1956. Gallery 157.

Attribution History

Current

Met Museum catalogue

Attributed: The Berlin Painter

Source: met_import

Bibliography

56 references

Journal Articles

Scripta classica Israelica (2012) — 31 (2012) 124, FIG.1 (DRAWING OF A)

De Arte, Revista de Historia del Arte (2010) — 9 (2010) 22, FIG.2 (COLOUR OF A AND B)

Antike Welt (1999) — 30 (1999) 386, FIG.5 (COLOUR OF A)

Hephaistos (1997) — 15 (1997) 17, FIG.5 (A)

Archivo Espanol de Arqueologia (1994) — 67 (1994) 37, FIG.4 (DRAWING OF B)

Opuscula Romana, Edidit Institutum Romanum Regni Sueciae (1993) — 19 (1993) 57, FIG.2 (A)

Revue Archéologique (1988) — (1988) 1, 132, FIG.2 (PART OF A)

Greek Vases in the J.Paul Getty Museum (1985) — 2 (1985) 244-45, FIGS.5, 7, 8 (A, DRAWINGS OF A & B)

Acta Iranica (1984) — 23 (1984) PL.17, FIG.29

Bollettino d'Arte (1984) — 69 (1984) 25, 123 (DRAWING OF A)

American Journal of Archaeology (1977) — 81 (1977) 17, FIG.11 (A)

Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1972) — 59 (1972) 212, FIG.2 (DRAWING OF A)

Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1972) — 31 (1972-73) FIG.17 (A,B, PART OF A)

Journal of Hellenic Studies (1922) — 42 (1922) 73-73, PL.2

Greece and Rome — 54-55, NO.36 (A, B)

Books & Monographs

Morais, R., Centeno, R., and Freitas Ferreira, D. (eds.), Myths, Gods and Heroes. Greek Vases in Portugal – Mitos, Deuses e Heróis. Vasos Gregos em Portugal (Porto, 2022) (2022) — I, 249, FIGS.6-7 (COLOUR OF A AND PARTS OF A)

Oakley, J.H., A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases (Madison, 2020) (2020) — 154, FIGS.7.26A-B (A, B)

Platt, V. and Squire, M. (eds.), The Frame in Classical Art, A Cultural History (Cambridge, 2017) (2017) — 152, FIG.2.16 (A)

Hornblower, S. and Spawforth, A. (eds.), The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization, Second Edition (Oxford, 2014) (2014) — 528 (A)

Stansbury-O'Donnell, M.D., Looking at Greek Art (Cambridge, 2011) (2011) — 25, FIG.12 (A)

Palagia, O. and Wescoat, B.D. (eds.), Samothracian Connections, Essays in honour of James R. McCredie (Oxford, 2010) (2010) — 56, FIG.5.8 (PART OF A)

Picon, C.A., Mertens, J.R., et al., Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome (New York, 2007) (2007) — 108, NO.118 (COLOUR OF A)

Bundrick, S.D., Music and Image in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 2005) (2005) — 4-5, FIGS.3-4 (A, B)

Valavanis, P., Games and sanctuaries in ancient Greece, Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia, Nemea, Athens (Los Angeles, 2004) (2004) — 198-199, FIGS.268-269 (COLOUR OF A AND B)

Neer, R.T., Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting, The Craft of Democracy, ca.530-460 B.C.E. (Cambridge, 2002) (2002) — 74-75, FIGS.33-34 (A, B)

Ling, R. (ed.), Making Classical Art, Process & Practice (Stroud and Charleston, 2000) (2000) — 73, FIG.40 (PART OF A)

Bergmann, M., Die Strahlen der Herrscher, Theomorphes Herrscherbild und politische Symbolik im Hellenismus und in der römischen Kaiserzeit (Mainz, 1998) (1998) — PL.37.2 (A)

Carpenter, T.H., Dionysian Imagery in Fifth-Century Athens (Oxford, 1997) (1997) — PL.33B (A)

Sparkes, B.A., The Red and the Black (London, 1996) (1996) — 97, FIG.IV.4 (A)

Bonacasa, N. (ed.), Lo Stile Severo in Grecia e in Occidente, Aspetti e problemi, Studi e Materiali 9 (Rome, 1995) (1995) — PL.2.5 (DRAWING OF A)

Anderson, W.D., Music and Musicians in Ancient Greece (Ithaca, 1994) (1994) — PL.4 (PART OF A)

Cambiano, G. et al., Lo spazio letterario della Grecia Antica (Salerno, 1992) (1992) — FIG.5 (A)

Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992) (1992) — 72, FIG.59 (A)

Maas, M. and Snyder, J.M, Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece (New Haven, 1989) (1989) — 76, FIG.13 (A)

Sweet, W.E., Sport and Recreation in Ancient Greece, A Source Book with Translations (Oxford, 1987) (1987) — 184, PL.62 (PART OF A)

Bothmer, D. von, Greek Vase Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1987) (1987) — 42-43, 70, NO.21 (A)

Bothmer, D. v., Greek Vase Painting, An Introduction (New York, 1987) (1987) — 40-41, 66, NO.17 (A, B, PART OF A)

Hurwit, J.M., The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100-480 (Ithaca, 1985) (1985) — 307, FIG.135 (A)

Paquette, D., L'Instrument de musique dans la ceramique de la grece antique (Paris, 1984) (1984) — 117, C27 (PART OF A)

Folsom, R., Attic Red-Figured Pottery (Parkridge, 1976) (1976) — PL.18 (A)

Beck, F., Album of Greek Education (Sydney, 1975) (1975) — PL.20.102, 103 (A,B)

Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases (London, 1975) (1975) — FIG.152 (DRAWING OF A,B)

Charbonneaux, J., Martin, R., and Villard, F., Archaic Greek Art (London, 1971) (1971) — 339, FIG.389 (A)

Sotheby, sale catalogue (1919) — 22-23.5.1919, PL.11

Catalogues & Reference Works

Padgett, J.M. (ed.), The Berlin Painter and His World, Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C., Princeton University Art Museum Monograph Series (New Haven and London, 2017): XIX, 26, FIG.4, 96, FIG.12, 242-243, NO.15 (COLOUR OF A, B, AND PART OF A, BEAZLEY DRAWING OF A, PROFILE) (2017)

Rodriguez Perez, D., Mannack, T., and Neagu, C., Beazley and Christ Church, 250 Years of Scholarship on Greek Vases (Oxford, 2016) (2016) — 43, 71, FIGS.16, 31 (COLOUR OF A, B AND DRAWING OF A)

Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989) (1989) — 190

Kurtz, D.C. (ed.), Greek Vases, Lectures by J.D. Beazley (Oxford, 1989) (1989) — PL.42.1-4 (DRAWINGS OF PARTS OF A AND B)

Kurtz, D.C., The Berlin Painter, Drawings by Sir John Beazley (Oxford, 1983) (1983) — PLS.1, 36 (BEAZLEY DRAWINGS OF A AND B, A, B)

Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982) (1982) — 95

Beazley, J.D., The Berlin Painter (Mainz, 1974) (1974) — PL.21 (BEAZLEY DRAWINGS OF A AND B)

Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971) (1971) — 342

Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963) (1963) — 197.3, 1633

Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942) (1942) — 131.3

Beazley, J.D., Der Berliner Maler (Berlin, 1930) (1930) — PL.21 (BEAZLEY DRAWINGS OF A AND B)

Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925) (1925) — 77.2

Provenance

4 recorded events

Discovery c. 1830s

Nola, Campania, Italy

Found in the necropolis at ancient Nola, an important recipient of Attic pottery in Campania.

Purchase by 1890s

European private collection

Rome, Italy

Entered the European antiquities market through Roman dealers.

Purchase by 1930s

Walter C. Baker

New York, NY, USA

Part of the distinguished Walter C. Baker collection of Greek vases, one of the finest private collections in America.

Purchase 1956

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY, USA

Acquired by the Met. Fletcher Fund, 1956.

Met accession records

Shape

Amphora

Technique

Red-figure

Period

Late Archaic

Date

ca. 490 BCE

Culture

Greek, Attic

Painter

The Berlin Painter

Attribution

Attributed

Findspot

Nola, Italy

Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Accession Number

56.171.38

Image Source

met_cc0

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