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: Numerous figures arranged on different levels of the ground; below, center, a man and a woman sitting on a kline, above which a cupid flies. In the upper band and all around, handmaids with different attributes and a harpist. In the background, various fillers, including an Italic sistrum.
Side B: Young couple in amorous conversation and four female figures holding various objects (parasol, mirror, casket, phiale); in the upper zone, a cupid with garland and sphere.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Harp [3285]
Sistrum [3042]

RIdIM images

Bibliographic references

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.

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.

RIdIM record id

3024