id:			106465
accession number:	1924.534
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.534
updated:		2023-03-07 12:11:50.004000

Red-Figure Bell Krater (Mixing Vessel): Aphrodite and Eros, c. 370–360 BC. Attributed to Graz Painter (South Italian, Apulian, active c. 380–360 BC). Ceramic; overall: 30.5 cm (12 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade 1924.534

title:				Red-Figure Bell Krater (Mixing Vessel): Aphrodite and Eros
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creation date:			c. 370–360 BC
creation date earliest:		-375
creation date latest:		-355
current location:		
creditline:			Gift of J. H. Wade
copyright:			

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culture:	South Italian, Apulian
technique:	ceramic
department:	Greek and Roman Art
collection:	GR - South Italy
type:		Ceramic
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CREATORS

* Graz Painter (South Italian, Apulian, active c. 380–360 BC)  - artist
Greek vase painter, active ca. 380-ca. 360 BCE in Apulia
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measurements: Overall: 30.5 cm (12 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Science within Art
	opening date:   1980-02-13T05:00:00
	<i>Science within Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-April 20, 1980).

	title:		Mirrors: Art and Symbol
	opening date:   1984-07-03T04:00:00
	<i>Mirrors: Art and Symbol</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 3-November 18, 1984).

	title:		Gallery One 2012
	opening date:   2012-12-12T05:00:00
	<i>Gallery One 2012</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-March 5, 2017).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Ludwig Pollak, Rome, Italy, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?-1924
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1924-
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fun fact:
The dancing nude youths on the reverse are unusual; typically they would be standing and draped.

digital description:
This small mixing vessel shows a finely dressed woman seated on a chest and holding up a mirror to admire herself. Before her stands Eros, the winged god of love, holding a ribbon or sash. Behind the woman stands a pillar with the inscription ΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΗ, or APHRODITE, the goddess of love. Such labels are rare on vases, and scholars debate whether this names the woman shown as Aphrodite herself, with her son Eros, or a bride envisioning herself as Aphrodite, just before her wedding.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
	page number: 	BAPD 1001472
	url:		http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/FE12C881-93FB-40A2-B168-C67741B90393

	Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg.<em> Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. </em>Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.
	page number: 	p. 27, Plate 43
	url:		http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/XDB/ASP/browseCVARecord.asp?id={FE12C881-93FB-40A2-B168-C67741B90393}&startRef=

	Trendall, A. D., and Alexander Cambitoglou. <em>The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia</em>. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.
	page number: 	p. 161, no. 6/216
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	Powell, Barry B. <em>Classical Myth</em>. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004.
	page number: 	p. 122, Fig. 5.4
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	Todisco, Luigi, and Giuseppina Gadaleta. <em>La ceramica a figure rosse della Magna Grecia e della Sicilia</em>. Roma: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 2012.
	page number: 	p. 380, No. 3
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	Gaifman, Milette. <em>Aniconism in Greek Antiquity.</em> Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
	page number: 	pp. 260-61, fig. 6.12-6.13
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