#volute krater

[artschoolglasses]

Fragment of a terracotta volute-krater, attributed to the Painter of the Dublin Situlae, mid-4th Century BCE

From the Met Museum

[anneelliots]

Greek terracotta volute-krater Attributed to the Painter of the Woolly Satyrs c.a. 450 BC Metropolitan Museum of Art

[didoofcarthage]

Wedgwood “krater” vase. English, c. 1790. Stoneware (basalt ware) with encaustic decoration. Philadelphia Museum of Art.

From the Philadelphia Museum of Art:

This vase, one of the largest in Etruscan Ware produced at Wedgwood, is a copy of an Apulian (South Italian) volute-krater dated circa 330-310 BCE that was in collection of Sir William Hamilton. An identical Wedgwood vase is today in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The monumental vessels may have been produced for display in the Wedgwood factory's London showrooms.

[aswiftfooted]

The Death of Talos volute krater from 400 to 395 BC, height 75 cm. (x)

[hellas-inhabitants]

The Death of Talos volute krater from 400 to 395 BC, height 75 cm. Ο θάνατος του Τάλω ελικοειδής κρατήρας 400 - 395 π.Χ., ύψος 75 εκατοστά. TALOS (Talôs). Was a man of brass, a work of Hephaestus. This wonderful being was given to Minos by Zeus or Hephaestus, and watched the island of Crete by walking round the island thrice every day. Whenever he saw strangers approaching, he made himself red - hot in fire, and then embraced the strangers when they landed. he had in his body only one vein, which ran from the head to the ankles, and was closed at the top with a nail. When he attempted to keep the Argonauts from Crete by throwing stones at them, Medeia by her magic powers threw him into a state of madness, or, according to others, under the pretence of making him immortal, she took the nail out of his vein and thus caused him to bleed to death. Ο ΤΑΛΩΣ (Τάλως). Ήταν ένας άνθρωπος από ορείχαλκο, έργο του Ηφαίστου. Αυτό το υπέροχο ον δόθηκε στο Μίνωα από τον Δία ή τον Ήφαιστο, και παρακολουθούσε το νησί της Κρήτης περπατώντας γύρω από το νησί τρεις φορές κάθε μέρα. Κάθε φορά που έβλεπε αγνώστους να πλησιάζουν, μεταμορφωνόταν σε κόκκινη - καυτή φωτιά, και στη συνέχεια αγκάλιαζε τους ξένους. Είχε στο σώμα του μόνο μία φλέβα, η οποία ξεκινούσε από το κεφάλι φτάνωντας μέχρι τους αστραγάλους, και έκλεινε στην κορυφή με ένα καρφί. Όταν προσπάθησε να κρατήσει μακριά τους Αργοναύτες από την Κρήτη πετώντας τους πέτρες, η Μήδεια με τις μαγικές δυνάμεις της τον έριξε σε μια κατάσταση τρέλας, ή, σύμφωνα με άλλους, με το πρόσχημα ότι θα τον κάνει αθάνατο, πήρε το καρφί από τη φλέβα του και έτσι τον έκανε να αιμορραγεί μέχρι θανάτου.

[mesbeauxarts-blog]

Thomas Hope. Vase (based on a classical volute krater). 1802-1803.

Copper, treated to resemble bronze, with applied ormolu mounts.

Victoria and Albert Museum. London, UK.

[locaantiqua-blog]

Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), Greek, Classical, 450 B.C., attributed to the painter of Woolly Satyrs

"The ancient Greeks almost never depicted contemporary or historical events in art. Thus, while literary works of the fifth century B.C. make clear that the Greeks understood the magnitude of their victory in the Persian Wars, there was no concern among artists to illustrate major events or personalities. Instead, their preference was for grand mythological battles between Greeks and eastern adversaries, notably Amazons."