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Red-Figure Bell-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Bust of Dionysos and Comic Actors (A); Dionysos, Satyr, Maenad (B)
c. 390–380 BCE
attributed to Choregos Painter
(South Italian, Apulian, active c. 390–380 BCE)
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.- 1989-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. BAPD 1002927 www.beazley.ox.ac.ukThe Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. Reproduced: p. 8 archive.orgTurner, 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). 25161319"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.orgTrendall, 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. 1/125Trendall, Dale. "A New Early Apulian Phlyax Vase." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 1 (1992). pp. 2-15, cover 25161344Taplin, 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. 92-93Easterling, P. E., and Edith Hall. Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2002. p. viiHart, 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. 3Heuer, 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.orgTrendall, 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
- The Art of Ancient Greek Theater. Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, CA (August 26, 2010-January 3, 2011).Notable Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 15, 1991).
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