ClassificationsGreek and Roman Art
Artist
Niobid Painter
(Greek, active ca. 475 - 450 BCE)
Red-Figure Amphora Fragment with Departing Warrior
AAT Object Form/FunctionAmphorae (storage vessel)
Place CreatedGreece, Europe
CultureGreek, Attic
PeriodClassical
Dateca. 460-450 BCE
MediumCeramic
Credit LineCarlos Collection of Ancient Art
Dimensions11 3/4 x 3 x 12 1/2 in. (29.8 x 7.6 x 31.8 cm)
Object number1984.012 A
Exhibition HistoryPoets & Heroes: Scenes of the Trojan War, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, November 8, 1986 - February 28, 1987MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11,1993 - May 2004
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - January 2012
Annotations: George Cooke, Thomas Hope and the Lure of Antiquity, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia, February 5 - July 22, 2012
MCCM Permanent Collection, August 2012 - June 5, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, July 2014 - October 2, 2023
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, November 27, 2023 - Present
Published ReferencesBonna D. Wescoat, Poets & Heroes: Scenes of the Trojan War (Atlanta: Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1986), 28-29, number 5.
Mathias Prange, Der Niobidenmaler und seine Werkstatt: Untersuchungen zu einer Vasenwerkstatt fruhklassischer Zeit (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1989), number N 67, 195.
Owen Rees, Military Departures, Homecomings, and Death in Classical Athens: Hoplite Transitions (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), 97, figure 5.3a.
ProvenanceWith Munzen und Medaillen A.G., Basel, Switzerland, from at least 1974. Purchased by Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology from Munzen und Medaillen A.G.
Status
On viewCollections
- Greek and Roman Art
ca. 470 BCE
ca. 460 BCE
ca. 470-460 BCE
Sisyphus Painter
late 5th Century BCE