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Dionysos, the god of wine, theater, and the mysteries, dominates both sides of this bell-krater, a vessel for mixing water and wine. On the front, he appears in bust form, wearing a fillet and laurel wreath. Over his shoulder and behind his head rests his <em>thyrsos</em>, sprouting grapevines. Comic actors, identifiable by their masks and padded costumes, flank the colossal bust, stretching for a bunch of grapes on the left and holding a large <em>skyphos </em>(wine cup) on the right. On the reverse, Dionysos marches in procession with his retinue, a satyr and maenad.
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155057
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Red-Figure Bell-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Bust of Dionysos and Comic Actors (A); Dionysos, Satyr, Maenad (B)
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155057
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Red-Figure Bell-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Bust of Dionysos and Comic Actors (A); Dionysos, Satyr, Maenad (B)
description
Dionysos, the god of wine, theater, and the mysteries, dominates both sides of this bell-krater, a vessel for mixing water and wine. On the front, he appears in bust form, wearing a fillet and laurel wreath. Over his shoulder and behind his head rests his <em>thyrsos</em>, sprouting grapevines. Comic actors, identifiable by their masks and padded costumes, flank the colossal bust, stretching for a bunch of grapes on the left and holding a large <em>skyphos </em>(wine cup) on the right. On the reverse, Dionysos marches in procession with his retinue, a satyr and maenad.
date
c. 390–380 BCE
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q60750590
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379296
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Ceramic
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1
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Overall: 38 cm (14 15/16 in.); Diameter of rim: 40.3 cm (15 7/8 in.); Diameter of foot: 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.)
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South Italian, Apulian
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1989.73
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Red-Figure Bell-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Bust of Dionysos and Comic Actors (A); Dionysos, Satyr, Maenad (B), c. 390–380 BCE. Attributed to Choregos Painter (South Italian, Apulian, active c. 390–380 BCE). Ceramic; overall: 38 cm (14 15/16 in.); diameter of rim: 40.3 cm (15 7/8 in.); diameter of foot: 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1989.73
collection
GR - South Italy
didYouKnow
The large bust of Dionysos may represent a stage prop or symbolize the multifaceted god.
citations
citation
Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
page_number
BAPD 1002927
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 8
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Turner, Evan H., et al. "Notable Acquisitions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 78, no. 3 (1991): 63-147.
page_number
p. 73 (entry by A. Kozloff).
url
www.jstor.org/stable/25161319
citation
"Recent Acquisitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art 1: Departments of Western Art: Supplement." <em>The Burlington Magazine</em> 133, no. 1054 (1991).
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pp. 63-68
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Trendall, A. D., Alexander Cambitoglou, and A. D. Trendall. <em>Second Supplement to The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia.</em> London: University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, 1991.
page_number
Postscript 495, no. 1/125
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Trendall, Dale. "A New Early Apulian Phlyax Vase." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 79, no. 1 (1992).
page_number
pp. 2-15, cover
url
www.jstor.org/stable/25161344
citation
Taplin, O. 1994. "The Beauty of the Ugly: Reflections of Comedy in the Fleischman Collection," in <em>A Passion for Antiquities: Ancient Art from the Collection of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman </em>(Malibu, Calif: J. Paul Getty Museum in association with the Cleveland Museum of Art): 15-27.
page_number
See p. 25, Fig. 5.
citation
Neils, Jenifer, and Gisela Walberg. <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, OH]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
page_number
p. 50-51, pl. 92-93
citation
Easterling, P. E., and Edith Hall. <em>Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession.</em> Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
page_number
p. vii
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Hart, Mary Louise, and J. Michael Walton.<em> The Art of Ancient Greek Theater.</em> Los Angeles, Calif: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010.
page_number
Cat. no. 3, pp. 16-17, 107, no. 3
citation
Heuer, Keely Elizabeth. 2015. "Vases with Faces: Isolated Heads in South Italian Vase Painting." <em>Metropolitan Museum Journal</em>, 50: 63-91.
page_number
See p. 84, n. 69.
citation
Trendall, A. D. <em>Myth, Drama and Style in South Italian Vase-Painting: Selected Papers. </em>Uppsala : Åströms förlag,2016.
page_number
Reproduced: P. 113, fig. 1, 2; p. 115, fig. 3; P. 116-117, fig. 6, 7, 11
citation
Todisco, Luigi. “Noterella sul Cratere Cleveland, Museum of Art,1989.73.” <em>Archeologia Classica</em> 70 (2019): 567–74
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John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 08:01:35.343000
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155057
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Greek and Roman Art
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GR - South Italy
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ceramic
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