The scene is also a fine example of the artist’s successful presentation of carefully defined figures-and objects such as shields-moving convincingly in three-dimensional space. This moment represents a victory for the Greeks, but the story goes on to relate that Achilles mourned Penthesilea, with whom he had fallen in love. The painter captured the moment when the Greek hero Achilles kills the Amazon queen, Penthesilea. In contrast, this battle scene is full of action and relates the mythic clash between the Greeks and Amazons during the Trojan War.

One side shows a ritual libation offered by family members as a soldier leaves for battle. Indeed, the decoration on both sides of this krater skillfully presents conflicting emotions.īoth sides of the vase depict scenes related to war. The interest in greater flexibility of line seemed to parallel that of dramatic storytelling, which developed more fully during this period. Thinly painted lines, as opposed to sharply incised lines, were used to define details within the figures. Here, the humans and objects were outlined on the reserved clay surface and surrounded by a black background. It is a fine example of the red-figure technique, an approach that essentially reversed the earlier black-figure technique. Title: Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) Date Created: ca.

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