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Red-Figure Bell-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Bust of Dionysos and Comic Actors (A); Dionysos, Satyr, Maenad (B)

c. 390–380 BC

attributed to Choregos Painter

(South Italian, Apulian, active c. 390–380 BC)

South Italian, Apulian

Ceramic

Overall: 38 cm (14 15/16 in.); Diameter of rim: 40.3 cm (15 7/8 in.); Diameter of foot: 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1989.73

Location

102D Pre-Roman

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The large bust of Dionysos may represent a stage prop or symbolize the multifaceted god.

Description

Dionysos, the god of wine, theater, and the mysteries, dominates both sides of this bell-krater, a vessel for mixing water and wine. On the front, he appears in bust form, wearing a fillet and laurel wreath. Over his shoulder and behind his head rests his thyrsos, sprouting grapevines. Comic actors, identifiable by their masks and padded costumes, flank the colossal bust, stretching for a bunch of grapes on the left and holding a large skyphos (wine cup) on the right. On the reverse, Dionysos marches in procession with his retinue, a satyr and maenad.

Artist biography

Choregos Painter

Greek vase painter, active 390-370 BCE in Apulia

Provenance

1989-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. BAPD 1002927 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. Reproduced: p. 8 archive.org

Turner, Evan H., et al. "Notable Acquisitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 3 (1991): 63-147. p. 73 (entry by A. Kozloff). www.jstor.org

"Recent Acquisitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art 1: Departments of Western Art: Supplement." The Burlington Magazine 133, no. 1054 (1991). pp. 63-68 www.jstor.org

Trendall, A. D., Alexander Cambitoglou, and A. D. Trendall. Second Supplement to The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia. London: University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, 1991. Postscript 495, no. 1/125

Trendall, Dale. "A New Early Apulian Phlyax Vase." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 1 (1992). pp. 2-15, cover www.jstor.org

Taplin, O. 1994. "The Beauty of the Ugly: Reflections of Comedy in the Fleischman Collection," in A Passion for Antiquities: Ancient Art from the Collection of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman (Malibu, Calif: J. Paul Getty Museum in association with the Cleveland Museum of Art): 15-27. See p. 25, Fig. 5.

Neils, Jenifer, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, OH]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. p. 50-51, pl. 92-93

Easterling, P. E., and Edith Hall. Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2002. p. vii

Hart, Mary Louise, and J. Michael Walton. The Art of Ancient Greek Theater. Los Angeles, Calif: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010. Cat. no. 3, pp. 16-17, 107, no. 3

Heuer, Keely Elizabeth. 2015. "Vases with Faces: Isolated Heads in South Italian Vase Painting." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 50: 63-91. See p. 84, n. 69. www.jstor.org

Trendall, A. D. Myth, Drama and Style in South Italian Vase-Painting: Selected Papers. Uppsala : Åströms förlag,2016. Reproduced: P. 113, fig. 1, 2; p. 115, fig. 3; P. 116-117, fig. 6, 7, 11

Exhibition history

Notable Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 15, 1991).

The Art of Ancient Greek Theater. Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, CA (August 26, 2010-January 3, 2011).

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