Detail View: The AMICA Library: Drinking Cup
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AMICA ID:
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AIC_.1907.323
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AMICA Library Year:
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1999
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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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Douris
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Creator Nationality:
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European; Southern European; Mediterranean
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Creator Dates/Places:
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Greek. fl. 500-460 B.C. Early Western World,Ancient Mediterranean,Ancient
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Douris, style of
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Creator Name:
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Unknown
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Creator Nationality:
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European; Southern European; Mediterranean
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Creator Dates/Places:
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Early Western World,Ancient Mediterranean,Ancient
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Greek (Attic)
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Title:
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Kylix (Drinking Cup)
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Title Type:
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preferred
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Title:
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Drinking Cup
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Title Type:
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alternate
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View:
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interior view
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Creation Date:
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High Classical Period, c. 480 B.C.
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Creation Start Date:
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-485
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Creation End Date:
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-475
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Materials and Techniques:
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Earthenware, red-figure technique
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Classification Term:
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Vessel
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Subject Description:
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The exterior of this cup is painted entirely in glossy black. On the interior of the cup, Artemis, identified by her attributes (bow, arrows, quiver) strides forward realistically, her swinging folds of drapery following logically the movements of her limbs. Her feet are naturalistically drawn, while her eye is no longer shown frontally in the profile face, as it had appeared in the black-figure manner.
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Creation Place:
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Europe,Greece,Greater Athens,Athens
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Dimensions:
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H.: 7.3 cm (2-7/8 in.)Diam. at mouth: 20.3 cm (8 in.)Diam. at foot: 8 cm (3-1/8 in.)
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Art Institute of Chicago
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Owner Location:
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
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ID Number:
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1907.323
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Credit Line:
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Martin A. Ryerson
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Inscriptions:
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Inscription (dark red): Hippodamas Kalos; 'Hippodamas is handsome'
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Rights:
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Context:
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Vase painters were often commissioned to add inscriptions to their vessels to celebrate the attractive youths of Athenian society, like Hippodamas, whose name appears on the inside of this kylix with the Greek work kalos, meaning 'handsome'.
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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AIC_.E28830.TIF
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