id: 144965 accession number: 1970.16 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.16 updated: 2023-08-23 22:16:11.147000 Black-Figure Neck-Amphora (Storage Vessel): Herakles and Nemean Lion (A); Dionysos, Satyrs, and Maenads (B), 515–510 BC. Attributed to Painter of Berlin 1899 (Greek, Attic). Ceramic; overall: 39.8 cm (15 11/16 in.); diameter: 29 cm (11 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1970.16 title: Black-Figure Neck-Amphora (Storage Vessel): Herakles and Nemean Lion (A); Dionysos, Satyrs, and Maenads (B) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 515–510 BC creation date earliest: -515 creation date latest: -510 current location: 001A ArtLens Exhibition creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund copyright: --- culture: Greek, Attic technique: ceramic department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Greek type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Painter of Berlin 1899 (Greek, Attic) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 39.8 cm (15 11/16 in.); Diameter: 29 cm (11 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1970 opening date: 1971-02-10T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971). title: A Cleveland Bestiary opening date: 1981-10-15T04:00:00 A Cleveland Bestiary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15-December 16, 1981). title: Artlens Exhibition 2019 opening date: 2019-06-11T04:00:00 Artlens Exhibition 2019. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1970- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: After Herakles strangled the Nemean lion, he wore its pelt as a protective trophy. digital description: The neck-amphora, one of the most popular vase shapes in Archaic Athens, provided painters with ample space for both figural and ornamental decoration. Herakles, the greatest of Greek heroes, performs his most famous deed on the obverse, wrestling the Nemean lion. His patron goddess Athena, together with his nephew Iolaos, holding the hero’s club, stand by. On the other side is an unrelated scene, showing the wine god Dionysos with dancing maenads and satyrs. Abundant ornament covers other areas: stylized lotus blossom and palmette chains on the neck; intricately linked palmettes and lotuses beneath each handle; and a key pattern, linked lotus buds, and rays on the lower body. wall description: The amphora was one of the most popular vase shapes towards the end of the 6th century BC. The expansive belly of this vase is well-suited to the more active and voluminous figures introduced in the 6th century. Side A: Herakles wrestles with the Nemean lion while Athena looks on. To the left is his nephew, Iolaos, holding his uncle's wooden club. Side B: Dionysus celebrates a drunken thiasos (reveling scene) with satyrs and maenads. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. page number: BAPD 1494 url: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/3D2673DB-6E66-49FD-A4D4-7CA00C4576C0 Kathman, Barbara. "A Trio of Late Black-Figure Vase Painters." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 2 (1979): 50-66. page number: pp. 57-63, figs. 13-16. url: www.jstor.org/stable/25159617 Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. page number: p. 9, plates 13 & 14, I url: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/XDB/ASP/browseCVARecord.asp?id={3D2673DB-6E66-49FD-A4D4-7CA00C4576C0}&startRef= Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1970." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 58, no. 2 (1971). page number: p. 27 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152361 Kathman, Barbara A. A Cleveland Bestiary. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. page number: Reproduced: p. 26; Mentioned: p. 25, p. 61 url: Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (LIMC). Zürich: Artemis, 1981. page number: V, PL.42, HERAKLES 1852 url: Mededelingen van het Nederlands Instituut te Rome: 9-10 (1983) page number: Pl. 4, Fig. 6 url: Keuls, Eva C. The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens. 1985. page number: url: Hedreen, Guy Michael. Silens in Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painting: Myth and Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992. page number: p. 57 url: Even, Yael. "Andrea Del Castagno's Eve: Female Heroes as Anomalies in Italian Renaissance Art." Woman's Art Journal 14, no. 2 (1993) page number: p. 41 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1358448 Keuls, Eva C. Painter and poet in ancient Greece: iconography and the literary arts. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1997. page number: p. 385, Fig.19 url: Neils, Jenifer. "Hercle in Cleveland." Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 3 (1998). page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 6 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20079696 Mahlerbe, Anne. “La Quete du Rouge: Reve et Cauchemar du Potier.” La Revue de la Ceramique et du Verre 236 (Janvier-Fevrier 2021): 50-53. page number: Reproduced: P. 50 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.16/1970.16_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.16/1970.16_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.16/1970.16_full.tif