COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
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AMICO~1~1
The AMICA Library
Collection
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AMICA ID:
AIC_.1907.20
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AIC_.1907.20
AMICA ID
false
AMICA Library Year:
1998
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1998
AMICA Library Year
false
Object Type:
Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
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Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Object Type
false
Creator Name:
Unknown
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Unknown
Creator Name
false
Creator Nationality:
European; Southern European; Mediterranean
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European; Southern European; Mediterranean
Creator Nationality
false
Creator Dates/Places:
Ancient Greece Early Western World, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient
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Ancient Greece Early Western World, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient
Creator Dates/Places
false
Creator Name-CRT:
Greek
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Greek
Creator Name-CRT
false
Creator Name:
Achilles Painter
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Achilles Painter
Creator Name
false
Creator Nationality:
European; Southern European; Mediterranean
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European; Southern European; Mediterranean
Creator Nationality
false
Creator Dates/Places:
Greek; fl. c.450-420 B.C. Early Western World, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient
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Greek; fl. c.450-420 B.C. Early Western World, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient
Creator Dates/Places
false
Creator Name-CRT:
Achilles Painter
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Achilles Painter
Creator Name-CRT
false
Title:
Lekythos (Oil Bottle)
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Lekythos (Oil Bottle)
Title
false
Title Type:
preferred
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preferred
Title Type
false
View:
view depicting old man in cloak with stick
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view depicting old man in cloak with stick
View
false
Creation Date:
High Classical Period, 450/440 B.C.
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High Classical Period, 450/440 B.C.
Creation Date
false
Creation Start Date:
-450
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-450
Creation Start Date
false
Creation End Date:
-440
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-440
Creation End Date
false
Materials and Techniques:
Earthenware, white-ground technique
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Earthenware, white-ground technique
Materials and Techniques
false
Classification Term:
Vessel
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Vessel
Classification Term
false
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.
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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.
Subject Description
false
Creation Place:
Europe, Greece, Greater Athens, Athens
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Europe, Greece, Greater Athens, Athens
Creation Place
false
Dimensions:
H.: 30.8 cm (12-1/8 in.); Diam. at shoulder: 9.8 cm (3-7/8 in.)
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H.: 30.8 cm (12-1/8 in.); Diam. at shoulder: 9.8 cm (3-7/8 in.)
Dimensions
false
AMICA Contributor:
The Art Institute of Chicago
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The Art Institute of Chicago
AMICA Contributor
false
Owner Location:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
Owner Location
false
ID Number:
1907.20
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1907.20
ID Number
false
Credit Line:
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Martin A. Ryerson
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Martin A. Ryerson
Credit Line
false
Rights:
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<a href="http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html"target="_new">http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html</a>
Rights
false
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.
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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.
Context
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Related Image Identifier Link:
AIC_.E27009.TIF
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AIC_.E27009.TIF
Related Image Identifier Link
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