Calyx Krater (Mixing Bowl) (about 400-380 BCE): Artwork and History

Calyx Krater (Mixing Bowl) (about 400-380 BCE) is in the Art Institute of Chicago collection. The museum lists its creator attribution as Attributed to The Perugia Painter, now combined with the Arnò Painter Etruscan.

The work and its context

The Art Institute of Chicago describes the work:

This vase was painted by a Greek artist who immigrated to Etruria, where Greek vases were a popular commodity. The seventh of Herakles’s Twelve Labors is shown here. Charged with capturing a monstrous bull that was terrorizing the people of Crete, the hero wields his club against the ungainly creature, watched over by King Minos on the left, the gods Apollo and Athena above, and Hermes on the right.

Object facts

• Title: Calyx Krater (Mixing Bowl)
• Date: about 400-380 BCE
• Artist attribution: Attributed to The Perugia Painter, now combined with the Arnò Painter Etruscan
• Place of origin: Basilicata
• Medium: terracotta, red-figure
• Dimensions: 43.8 × 46.7 × 46.4 cm (17 1/4 × 18 3/8 × 18 1/4 in.)
• Type: Vessel
• Department: Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
• Reference number: 1889.18

Collection credit

Gift of Philip D. Armour and Charles L. Hutchinson

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