Collection Online as of October 28, 2020

Red-Figure Bell Krater (Mixing Vessel): Aphrodite and Eros

c. 370-360 BC

attributed to Graz Painter

(South Italian, Apulian, active c. 380-360 BC)

South Italian, Apulian

Ceramic

Overall: 30.5 cm (12 in.)

Gift of J. H. Wade 1924.534

Location

not on view

Graz Painter

Greek vase painter, active ca. 380-ca. 360 BCE in Apulia

Provenance

?-1924

Ludwig Pollak, Rome, Italy, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1924-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. BAPD 1001472 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk

Trendall, A. D., and Alexander Cambitoglou. The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. p. 161, no. 6/216

Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. p. 27, Plate 43

Powell, Barry B. Classical Myth. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004. p. 122, Fig. 5.4

Todisco, Luigi, and Giuseppina Gadaleta. La ceramica a figure rosse della Magna Grecia e della Sicilia. Roma: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 2012. p. 380, No. 3

Gaifman, Milette. Aniconism in Greek Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. pp. 260-61, fig. 6.12-6.13

Exhibition history

Science within Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-April 20, 1980).

Mirrors: Art and Symbol. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 3, 1994-January 27, 1985).