#A GREEK BRONZE KANTHAROS

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A GREEK BRONZE KANTHAROS ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.

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Etruscan Art

The art of the Etruscans, who flourished in central Italy between the 8th and 3rd century BCE, is renowned for its vitality and often vivid colouring. Wall paintings were especially vibrant and frequently capture scenes of Etruscans enjoying themselves at parties and banquets. Terracotta additions to buildings were another Etruscan speciality, as were carved bronze mirrors and fine figure sculpture in bronze and terracotta. Minor arts are perhaps best represented by intricate gold jewellery pieces and the distinctive black pottery known as bucchero whose shapes like the kantharos cup would inspire Greek potters.

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Kantharos, 5th century BCE, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture

two wire-like handles; two lobes on body which rests on lobed stem attached to foot The kantharos (plural, kantharoi), a type of drinking cup with two high loop handles and a deep bowl, is particularly associated with Dionysos, the Greek god of wine and vegetation. Its horizontal handles make this cup unusual, since they more closely resemble those of a shallower type of cup known as a kylixthan those of other kantharoi. Since few ceramic examples of kantharoi survive, it is believed that they were more usually made of bronze, silver, or gold. Metal examples, often destroyed by corrosion or melted down for other uses, are also rare. Size: 3 11/16 x 6 15/16 x 3 3/16 in. (9.37 x 17.62 x 8.1 cm) Medium: Bronze

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Statue of Dionysus from Ancient Greece (Late Hellenistic/Early Roman Period, about 100 BCE/100 CE)

This statue depicting Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and theatre, is one of very few bronze statues to have survived from antiquity. It is thought that he once held a kantharos, or wine cup, in his raised right arm and may have held a thyrsos, a staff topped by a pine cone, in his left, since the deity is shown holding them in other ancient sculptures and paintings.

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What Greek Mythology Creature Are You?

On the higher left is the blind seer Teiresias, apparently current because the foreteller of Herakles' greatness. In her left hand she holds the string of an iynx-wheel. At the far right, King Kreon of Thebes looks on, his right hand raised in a questioning gesture, his left holding a white pilos and a spear. Aphrodite and Eros signify the eagerness of Zeus, who in this model apparently comes within the guise of an eagle to rescue his love. Zeus had sired Herakles by coming to Alkmene within the guise of her husband, Amphitryon. A youthful attendant is standing in front of him; he gestures toward Teiresias and with his different hand points toward Amphitryon's tried sacrilege. At the higher left is the blind seer Teiresias, apparently the foreteller of Herakles' greatness. By date unknown: with A. H. Baldwin & Sons, Ltd., The Adelphi, 1-eleven John Adam Street, London W.C. 2, England; April 14, 1971: purchased by MFA from A. H. Baldwin & Sons, Ltd. Obverse: Bust of Zeus Boulaios, laureate, left, chlamys on left shoulder. The god is dressed in a Roman military costume with a Phrygian cap on his head. Sculpture in Stone (MFA), no. 140; Sculpture in Stone and Bronze (MFA), p. 111 (extra published references). B: A younger satyr, standing to the best with his left foot on a yellow rock, holds out in his right hand a white kantharos with yellow shading and in his left a wreath and yellow fillet. At the left a young Pan is laying a calyx-krater adorned with figures in added yellow at the god's feet. She carries a thyrsos in her left hand and a torch with a trailing fillet in her proper. A dappled fawn, its pelt tinted with brown dilute glaze, reclines subsequent to Dionysos and appears again toward the god. In his left hand he holds a thyrsos with a yellow shaft and a tip in added purple and brown. The one on the left holds a strigil in his prolonged right hand. In Nielinfo holds a tree that doesn't really resemble laurel.

Apollo wears a white wreath, and his quiver, embellished with a wave-pattern, hangs at his left aspect on a baldric. She wears yellow earrings, yellow necklace, embades, a chiton, a yellow belt, a Phyrigian cap, embroidered trousers, and a sleeved tunic - appropritae garb for a goddess from barbarian Thrace. By date unknown: presumably from Asia Minor; by 1984: with Selim Dere, West Facet Jewelry, 7 Godwin Avenue, Ridgewood, N.J. 07450; bought by MFA from Selim Dere, June thirteen, 1984. Though Euripides was well-liked amongst South Italian Greeks, there is little proof that he or his fellow playwrights were much performed in Etruria, not to mention Falerii. The satyr on the left wears crossed bandoleers of white beads, and the one on the right holds a metal jug in his right hand. Each carry thyrsoi in their left palms, and Dionysos additionally holds his kantharos in his right hand. The god strikes to the left atop a low, viny hummock while trying again at his white-skinned consort, who rests one foot upon a low altar. His proper hand is raised in front of his chest, and with his left arm he cradles his striped scepter. She holds her caduceus in her outstretched left hand. To the proper of Athena, Iris runs to the proper toward the central group of Apollo and Artemis. Her right hand touches her defend, and the left holds her short spear in a vertical place. Agamemnon rushes towards the altar, his long scepter in his right hand, however is restrained by the second man. The leftmost youth holds a workers in his right hand; the second has a strigil in his raised proper hand. The central hunter raises his sword in his proper hand to slash the hindquarters of the boar, which prices to the left. Jamileh Alavi Collection (in MFA, Sculpture in Stone and Bronze as: from a non-public assortment in Germany, and probably from Asia Minor or close by lands); Gift of Mrs. The Tarporley Painter painted principally bell-kraters, favoring Dionysiac and style scenes over mythology.

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ETRUSCAN ART: 

THE art of the Etruscans, who flourished in central Italy between the 8th and 3rd century BCE, is renowned for its vitality and often vivid colouring. Wall paintings were especially vibrant and frequently capture scenes of Etruscans enjoying themselves at parties and banquets. Terracotta additions to buildings were another Etruscanspeciality, as were carved bronze mirrors and fine figure sculpture in bronze and terracotta. Minor arts are perhaps best represented by intricate gold jewellery pieces and the distinctive black pottery known as bucchero whose shapes like the kantharos cup would inspire Greek potters.

The identification of what exactly is Etruscan art - a difficult enough question for any culture - is made more complicated by the fact that Etruria was never a single unified state but was, rather, a collection of independent city-states who formed both alliances and rivalries with each other over time. These cities, although culturally very similar, nevertheless produced artworks according to their own particular tastes and whims. Another difficulty is presented by the consequences of the Etruscans not living in isolation from other Mediterranean cultures. Ideas and art objects from Greece, Phoenicia, and the East reached Etruria via the long-established trade networks of the ancient Mediterranean.

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