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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Unknown Creator Nationality: European; Southern European; Mediterranean Creator Dates/Places: Ancient Greece Early Western World, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient Creator Active Place: Early Western World, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient Creator Name-CRT: Greek Creator Name: Achilles Painter Creator Role: painter Creator Dates/Places: Greek; fl. c.450-420 B.C. Early Western World, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient Creator Name-CRT: Achilles Painter Title: Lekythos (Oil Bottle) Title Type: preferred View: view depicting old man in cloak with stick Creation Start Date: -45 Creation End Date: -44 Creation Date: High Classical Period, 450/440 B.C. Creation Place: Europe, Greece, Greater Athens, Athens Object Type: Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects Classification Term: Vessel Materials and Techniques: Earthenware, white-ground technique Dimensions: H.: 30.8 cm (12-1/8 in.); Diam. at shoulder: 9.8 cm (3-7/8 in.) AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA ID Number: 1907.20 Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Martin A. Ryerson Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html Subject Description: Lekythoi were favored gifts for male burials, since they were popular as containers of the oil with which young athletes cleaned themselves. This lekythos is quite typical, showing a farewell scene on the main frieze. The older man (with stick and cloak) salutes the departed youth, a warrior, who holds his spear proudly. Some of the washes of color added to the garment have faded away. This vase has the distinction of having been painted by a leading exponent of red-figure painting, the Achilles Painter (named for his depiction of Achilles on an amphora in the Vatican Museum), who also tried his hand at the white-ground technique. Context: Baked clay vessels decorated with mythological and genre scenes were used by Greeks as dinner party ware, prizes, gifts, and grave offerings. During the High Classical Period Athens was the leading center in vase production, as well as the intellectual and political leader of the Greek mainland and the Ionian coast. Philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, and the politician Pericles worked at this time in the city that was restoring the ruined Acropolis with building such as the Parthenon. AMICA ID: AIC_.1907.20 AMICA Library Year: 1998 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998 AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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