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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 Role: Artist 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: Chicago Painter Creator Role: painter Creator Dates/Places: Greek; fl. c.450 B.C. Early Western World,Ancient Mediterranean,Ancient Creator Name-CRT: Chicago Painter Title: Stamnos (Wine Jar) Title Type: preferred View: 'front view without lid of female figures, vase, kantharos on table, and thyrsos' Creation Start Date: -45 Creation End Date: -44 Creation Date: High Classical Period, c. 450 B.C. Creation Place: Europe,Greece,Greater Athens,Athens Object Type: Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects Classification Term: Vessel Materials and Techniques: Earthenware, red-figure technique Dimensions: H: 37 cm (14-5/8 in.); Diam. with handles: 41.9 cm (16-1/2 in.); Diam. of rim: 21.1 cm. (8-5/16 in.) AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA ID Number: 1889.22 Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Philip D. Armour and Charles L. Hutchinson Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html Subject Description: The painted scene on the front of this stamnos, or wine jar, shows three female figures. To the left, a woman shown in profile view holds up a vase that has the same shape as the stamnos itself. The central figure prepares to place a garland around the vase's neck. She stands in front of a table on which sit a kantharos (a high-handled, deep drinking cup) and a pomegranate (or apple). To the right, a garlanded woman holds a thyrsos (a special staff carried by maenads). In this scene, we are in Dionysos'srealm: the three women, one certainly a maenad and the others possibly also, celebrate a festival. One noteworthy aspect of this scene is the seriousness of mood communicated by the set of bodies and heads and by the gestures. On the back, another trio of women display interest in wine: one holds a drinking horn and another a thyrsos, while a third looks on. 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, Plate, 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_.1889.22 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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