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Known as "white-ground" because of the white clay slip applied as a surface for figural decoration, vases of this type give some idea of the appearance of lost ancient large-scale wall paintings. Both remarkably well preserved and masterfully composed, the images cover the entire circumference of the vase. At the center, Atalanta, the virgin huntress renowned for both her speed and her opposition to marriage, races to the right while looking back at Eros, the winged god of love; both figures are named. This Eros, bounding forward, tries to crown her, while two additional Erotes (also named) further hem her in. Love will win.
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142277
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White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Atalanta and Erotes
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142277
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White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Atalanta and Erotes
description
Known as "white-ground" because of the white clay slip applied as a surface for figural decoration, vases of this type give some idea of the appearance of lost ancient large-scale wall paintings. Both remarkably well preserved and masterfully composed, the images cover the entire circumference of the vase. At the center, Atalanta, the virgin huntress renowned for both her speed and her opposition to marriage, races to the right while looking back at Eros, the winged god of love; both figures are named. This Eros, bounding forward, tries to crown her, while two additional Erotes (also named) further hem her in. Love will win.
date
c. 500–490 BCE
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60757832
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10899
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Ceramic
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1
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Overall: 31.8 cm (12 1/2 in.)
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Greek, Attic
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1966.114
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White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Atalanta and Erotes, c. 500–490 BCE. Attributed to Douris (Greek, Attic, active c. 500–470 BCE). Ceramic; overall: 31.8 cm (12 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1966.114
collection
GR - Greek
didYouKnow
Eros, god of love, appears three times on this vase.
citations
citation
Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
page_number
BAPD 275976
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 20
citation
Cooney, John D. "Atalanta in Cleveland." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>53, no. 8 (October 1966): 318 - 325<em>. </em>
page_number
Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 318-325
citation
Stechow, Wolfgang. "Cleveland's Golden Anniversary Acquisitions." <em>Artnews</em> 65, no. 5 (September 1966): 30-64.
page_number
Mentioned & reproduced: p. 32-33
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 20
citation
Simon, Erika. <em>Meleager Und Atalante: ein Spätantiker Wandbehang.</em> Bern: Abegg-Stiftung, 1970.
page_number
Mentioned p. 17-18; Reproduced p. 18 fig. 4.
citation
Beazley, J. D.<em> Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters </em>(Second Edition). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
page_number
p. 376, No. 266BIS
citation
Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg.<em> Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum.</em> Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.
page_number
p. 21, plates 32-34, 35, I
citation
Boulter, Cedric G. "The Douris Lekythos in Cleveland." <em>American Journal of Archaeology</em> 79, no. 3 (1975): 282-83.
citation
Kurtz, Donna. <em>Athenian White Lekythoi: Patterns and Painters.</em> Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
page_number
Mentioned p. 27-32, 128, 200. Reproduced p. 29, 78, Plates 10.2, 11.
citation
Adams, Celeste, Jay Gates, and Gabriel P. Weisberg. “The Art Museum and the High School: The Advanced Placement Approach to the History of Art.” <em>Art Journal</em> 35, no. 1 (1975): 33–36.
page_number
Reproduced p. 35, fig. 2.
citation
Boardman, John. <em>Athenian Red Figure Vases, the Archaic Period : A Handbook.</em> London: Thames and Hudson, 1975.
page_number
P. 139, fig. 294.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 23
citation
Moon, Warren G. and Louise Berge. <em>Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections</em>. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1979.
page_number
Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 184-185, cat. 104
citation
Schefold, Karl, and Franz Jung. <em>Die Göttersage in Der Klassischen Und Hellenistischen Kunst</em>. München: Hirmer, 1981.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced p. 194
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. T<em>he World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 14, fig. 16
citation
Boardman, John. “Atalanta.” <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 10 (1983): 3–19. https://doi.org/10.2307/4104327.
citation
Carpenter, Thomas H., J. D. Beazley, Thomas Mannack, Melanie Mendonça, and Lucilla Burn.<em> Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena</em>. Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989.
page_number
p. 241
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
citation
Carpenter, Thomas H. <em>Art and Myth in Ancient Greece: A Handbook. </em>London: Thames and Hudson, 1991.
page_number
fig. 93
citation
Galinsky, Karl. “Venus, Polysemy, and the Ara Pacis Augustae.” <em>American Journal of Archaeology</em> 96, no. 3 (1992): 457–75.
citation
Scheibler, Ingeborg. <em>Griechische Malerei Der Antike</em>. München: C.H. Beck, 1994.
page_number
Mentioned p. 114, #48
citation
Tortora, Phyllis G., and Keith Eubank. <em>A Survey of Historic Costume : A History of Western Dress</em>. 2nd ed. New York: Fairchild Publications, 1994.
page_number
Mentioned p. 38, reproduced p. 47 Fig. 3.5
citation
Reeder, Ellen D.<em> Pandora: Women in Classical Greece</em>. Baltimore, Md: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1995.
page_number
p. 71, fig. 19
citation
Buitron-Oliver, Diana. "Stories from the Trojan Cycle in the Work of Douris." In Jane B. Carter, and Sarah P. Morris, eds. <em>The Ages of Homer: A Tribute to Emily Townsend Vermeule.</em> 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. 437-447.
page_number
Mentioned p. 448-430, reproduced figs. 27.5-27.7
citation
Buitron-Oliver, Diana<em>. Douris: A Master-Painter of Athenian Red-Figure Vases.</em> Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1995.
page_number
PL.31, NO.47
citation
Barringer, Judith M. "Atalanta as Model: The Hunter and the Hunted." <em>Classical Antiquity</em> 15, no. 1 (1996)
page_number
Mentioned p. 73, reproduced fig. 29
citation
March, Jennifer R. <em>Cassell Dictionary of Classical Mythology.</em> London: Cassell, 1998.
page_number
p. 153, fig. 54
citation
Immerwahr, Henry R.<em> A Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI).</em> [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1998.
page_number
p. 792, no. 3204
citation
May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. <em>Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
page_number
p. 116, no. 11
citation
Scanlon, Thomas Francis. <em>Eros and Greek Athletics</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
page_number
Mentioned p.182, reproduced fig. 7-1.
citation
Barringer, Judith M. <em>The Hunt in Ancient Greece. </em>Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
page_number
Figs. 92-93, pp. 168-169
citation
Oakley, John Howard.<em> Picturing Death in Classical Athens: The Evidence of the White Lekythoi.</em> New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
page_number
plate 4a
citation
Dipla, Anthi, "Eros the mediator: Persuasion and seduction in pursuit, courting and wedding scenes."<em> Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry </em>6, no. 2 (2006): 19-35.
page_number
Mentioned p. 21, footnote 9.
citation
Franklin, David. <em>Director's Choice:The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> London: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd, 2012.
page_number
Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 12-13
citation
Franklin, David C. Griffith Mann. <em>Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012.
page_number
Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 34-35
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art, and David Franklin. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. London: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd, 2012.
page_number
pp. 12-13
citation
Dipla, Anthi and Dimitris Paleothodoros, "Selected for the Dead: Erotic Themes on Grave Vases from Attic Cemeteries," in Danielsson, Ing-Marie Back, Fredrik Fahlander, and Ylva Sjöstrand, eds. <em>Encountering Imagery: Materialities, Perceptions, Relations.</em> Stockholm: Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, 2012. p. 209-233
page_number
Mentioned p. 225
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: P. 81
citation
Vergara Cerqueira, Fábio. "Abordagens mitológicas na iconografia funerária da cerâmica ática (510-450 A.C.): repensando a periodização." <em>Classica: Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos </em>27, no 1. (2014): 83-128
page_number
Mentioned p. 114 note 40.
citation
Williams, Dyfri. "Beyond the Berlin Painter: Toward a Workshop View." In <em>The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C. </em>J. Michael Padgett,J ed., 144-187. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, Connecticut: Distributed by Yale University Press, 2017.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 171, fig. 17
citation
Hopper, Robin. <em>Functional Pottery: Form and Aesthetic in Pots of Purpose. </em>2017.
page_number
p. 51
citation
Rodríguez López, María Isabel. “Atalante and Hippomenes: Iconographic Recreation of a Myth”. <em>Eikón / Imago</em> 7 (June 11, 2018): 167–196
page_number
Mentioned p. 170-171; reproduced Fig. 1
citation
Zachari, Vasiliki, Elise Lehoux and Noémie Hosoi. <em>La Cité des Regards: autour de François Lissarrague</em>. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2019.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 210, fig. 3
citation
Esteban Santos, Alicia. "Iconography of Themes in Greek Lyric: The Example of Anacreon's Poetry," In Alejandro Cantarero de Salaza, Alicia Esteban Santos, and Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado eds.,<em> Greek Lyric Poetry and Its Influence: Texts, Iconography, Music and Cinema.</em> Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2020. p. 213-259
page_number
Mentioned p. 220-221, reproduced p. 220
citation
Reid, Heather. “Heroic <em>Parthenoi</em> and the Virtues of Independence: A Feminine Philosophical Perspective on the Origins of Women’s Sport.” <em>Sport, Ethics and Philosophy</em> 14, no.4 (2020): 511–24.
page_number
Mentioned p. 516
citation
Carpenter, Thomas H. <em>Art and Myth in Ancient Greece</em>. New edition. London: Thames and Hudson, 2021.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced; pp. 87-88, fig. 79.
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Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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2026-06-16 11:13:04.824000
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Greek and Roman Art
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