Bell-krater (mixing bowl) with youths in the palaestra
Artist:
Attributed to the Nikias Painter
Place made:Greece
Culture: Greek
Date: ca. 420-410 B.C.
Medium: Terracotta, red-figure technique
Dimensions:
h. 37.4 cm, diam. of mouth 41.2 cm, diam. of foot 19.8 cm
Credit Line: Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 86.134.78
Provenance: sold by Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, to Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio, 1983; Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., by gift to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986
Published References
Galerie Gunter Puhze cat. 5 (Freiburg 1983) 21, no. 191
H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picón, and G.D. Scott, III, eds., “Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art” (San Antonio, 1995) pp. 190-1, no. 96
Label Text
Side A: A group of athletes
Side B: Three youths
On the front of the vase, five young men are shown in a palaestra, a place for wrestling and other athletics. The four nude young men are all athletes: one scrapes himself with a strigil after exercising, another leans on a javelin, and a third holds a discus. (Jessica Powers 2008)
Side B: Three youths
On the front of the vase, five young men are shown in a palaestra, a place for wrestling and other athletics. The four nude young men are all athletes: one scrapes himself with a strigil after exercising, another leans on a javelin, and a third holds a discus. (Jessica Powers 2008)
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