Hydria with scene of acrobatic games

Roccanova Painter (active ca. 360-320 BCE) (follower or school of)

Item type:

vessel

Date of creation:

ca. 350 BCE

Technique / Medium:

red figure painting

Place of creation:

Lucania (Italia)

School:

Lucanian Style

Description

A juggler makes a girl wearing two false wings jump from the top of a column set under a double plinth with two steps; an aulos player sitting on the ground accompanies the acrobatic performance.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Aulos [4173]

RIdIM images

Bibliographic references

Santarelli, Cristina. "The collections of Greek and Italiot pottery of the Museo di Antichità, Turin", Music in Art 30/1-2 (2005) 244-254. RILM 2005-7129.

Santarelli, Cristina. "Iconografia musicale nella ceramica greca e italiota del Museo di Antichità di Torino", Miscellanea di studi 5, ed. by Alberto Basso (Torino: Istituto per i Beni Musicali in Piemonte, 2003) 7-40.

RIdIM record id

3014