id: 148008 accession number: 1975.1 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.1 updated: 2023-03-11 20:51:03.327000 Black-Figure Hydria (Water Vessel): Frontal Quadriga (Body); Theseus and Minotaur (Shoulder), c. 520 BC. Attributed to Antimenes Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 530–510 BC). Ceramic; overall: 43.2 cm (17 in.); diameter of rim: 24.7 cm (9 3/4 in.); diameter of foot: 15.2 cm (6 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1975.1 title: Black-Figure Hydria (Water Vessel): Frontal Quadriga (Body); Theseus and Minotaur (Shoulder) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 520 BC creation date earliest: -525 creation date latest: -515 current location: 102B Greek creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Greece, Attic technique: ceramic department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Greek type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Antimenes Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 530–510 BC) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 43.2 cm (17 in.); Diameter of rim: 24.7 cm (9 3/4 in.); Diameter of foot: 15.2 cm (6 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Das Tier in der Antike, Archäologisches Institut der Universität Zürich, Switzerland (9/21/1974 - 11/17/1974). * The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (30 June-5 September 1982). --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1975- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This type of water vessel, a hydria, takes its name from hudor, Greek for water (and still familiar in the English root hydro). digital description: Although their subjects differ, the three fields of figured decoration on this vessel relate to one another metaphorically through the theme of victory. Just as Theseus defeats the Minotaur on the shoulder, two lions converge on a deer in the predella (the small, lowermost panel). In the largest panel, victory is still to come, presumably for all three warriors shown: one in the chariot behind his driver, and one on foot on either side. Somewhat unusually, two of the warriors look directly out at the viewer, their frontal faces an interesting complement to the much more common frontal chariot. wall description: The styles of the Antimenes Painter and of Psiax were so close that the great vase-painting expert, Sir John Beazley, has referred to them as "brothers." Both were active in the last decades of the 6th century BC when the new red-figure style came to dominate vase production in Athens, but only Psiax produced vases in black- and red - figure. Some figures on this hydria are very close in style to those on the eye kylix (CMA 1976.89) by Psiax. Both artists delighted in intricate detail and curvilinear designs. Shoulder: Theseus slaying the Cretan Minotaur Main panel: Quadriga (four-horse chariot) and warriors Predella: Lions attacking a doe; two stags. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. page number: BAPD 5188 url: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/1FCD5A83-F3FC-4B0E-A31C-2EC6893B12CD 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. 50-54, figs. 1, 2, 4. 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: pp. 29-31, FIGS.2-3, PLS.(1812-1814) 66.1, 67.1-2, 68.1-3 url: Das Tier in der Antike: 400 Werke ägyptischer, griechischer, etruskischer und römischer Kunst aus privatem und öffetlichem Besitz. Zürich: Archäologisches Institut der Universität Zürich, 1974. page number: p. 39, no. 225, pl. 38 url: Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1975." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 63, no. 2 (1976): 31-71. page number: p. 34, fig. 1, 65, no. 1 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152624 Gazette des Beaux Arts (March 1976). page number: p. 32, no, 118 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 23 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n43 Moon, Warren G. and Louise Berge. Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago,1979. page number: Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 106-107, cat. 61 url: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0045%3Aentry%3D61 Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 12-13; Reproduced: fig. 14, p. 12, color plate 14 after p. 22 url: Korshak, Yvonne. Frontal Faces in Attic Vase Painting of the Archaic Period. Chicago: Ares Publishers, 1987. page number: p. 141, Fig. 89 url: Burow, Johannes. Der Antimenesmaler. Mainz/Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1989. page number: p. 104, no, 111 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 9 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n24 Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 24 url: Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: p. 34 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.1/1975.1_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.1/1975.1_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.1/1975.1_full.tif