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Terracotta hydria (water jar)

Terracotta hydria (water jar). Culture: Greek, South Italian, Lucanian. Dimensions: H. 18 1/16 in. (45.9 cm). Date: ca. 420-400 B.C.. Two women presenting gifts to two youths The Amykos Painter was a prolific artist who invented a repertoire of stock figural types for his less ambitious works. The youths here are characterized as athletes by their nudity, the gifts of a fillet and wreath, and the strigil (scraper) held by the rightmost figure.
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Title:
Terracotta hydria (water jar)
Caption:
Terracotta hydria (water jar). Culture: Greek, South Italian, Lucanian. Dimensions: H. 18 1/16 in. (45.9 cm). Date: ca. 420-400 B.C.. Two women presenting gifts to two youths The Amykos Painter was a prolific artist who invented a repertoire of stock figural types for his less ambitious works. The youths here are characterized as athletes by their nudity, the gifts of a fillet and wreath, and the strigil (scraper) held by the rightmost figure.
Technique/material:
Terracotta; red-figure
Period:
classical
Museum:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Credit:
Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Releases:
Model: No - Property: No
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Image size:
4200 x 4200 px | 50.5 MB
Print size:
35.6 x 35.6 cm | 14.0 x 14.0 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
CLASSICAL • CLAY • EUROPE • GREECE • GREEK AND ROMAN ART • HYDRIAE • METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, USA • TERRACOTTA • TERRACOTTA; RED-FIGURE • VASES • VESSELS