Detail View: The AMICA Library: Red-Figure Lekythos (oil flask) with the Birth of Erichthonios
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AMICA ID:
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CMA_.1982.142
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AMICA Library Year:
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1998
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Object Type:
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Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
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Creator Name:
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Meidias Painter
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Creator Nationality:
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Greek
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Gender:
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M
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Meidias Painter
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Title:
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Red-Figure Lekythos (oil flask) with the Birth of Erichthonios
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Title Type:
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Primary
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View:
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Detail
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Creation Date:
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c. 410 BC
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Creation Start Date:
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-412
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Creation End Date:
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-408
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Materials and Techniques:
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earthenware with slip decoration and gilded relief
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Classification Term:
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Ceramic
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Classification Term:
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Ceramic
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Dimensions:
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Diameter: 18.6cm, Overall: 30.3cm
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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ID Number:
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1982.142
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Credit Line:
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Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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Rights:
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Context:
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"Here there is beauty: The gleam of gold, loves and ladies with soft limbs, in soft raiment, and all that is shining, easeful and luxurious: perfume, honey and roses." So J.D. Beazley, the renowned connoisseur of Greek vases, described the work of the Meidias Painter, one of the last great Athenian vase painters.
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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CMA_.1982.142det01.tif
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