Pelike with Elysian-Dionysian themes

Darius Painter (active ca. 340-330 BCE) (follower or school of)

Item type:

vessel

Date of creation:

ca. 350-325 BCE

Technique / Medium:

red figure painting

Place of creation:

Apulia (Italia)

School:

Apulian Style

Description

Side A: Various figures resting on different levels of the ground. Below, centre, a laurel-wreathed man plays the kithara in company of a young woman, while another leaning on a cushion prepares to crown him and a cupid flutters above the couple. At left in the middle band, a scene of offering between a young woman sitting on an altar and a young girl with cista and tympanon; on the right, another couple in amorous conversation. In the upper zone, left, a young woman playing the kithara; beyond, Aphrodite on a red coach driven by two cupids.
Side B: Below, center, Dionysus in the act of offering to a maenad with thyrsus and situla; on the right, turned toward him, another maenad with tympanon and mirror. Above, a female figure, in the usual Apulian dress, offering a casket and a crown to a bejewelled cupid who holds a mirror in the right hand.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Kithara [4940]
Tympanon [3705]

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

3023