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Beldam Painter: Herakles and Pholos
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Herakles and Pholos |
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English: The surface of this lekythos, a vessel for holding liquids such as oil or perfume, is covered with an assortment of lines and a meander pattern on red on the neck, shoulder, and base. It likely depicts a scene from Herakles' life that was parallel to his main labors. These side-adventures, or "parerga," were entertaining and provocative narratives of interest to artists.
Here we see a draped male figure, leaning against a rock, who can be identified as Herakles by the quiver and the club above his head. He looks to the left, and as our eye moves around the side of the vase following his line of vision, we encounter a centaur, standing before a pithos and facing the hero. This has been identified as the encounter of Herakles and Pholos, a centaur who lived in the Peloponnese and dwelt in a cave on Mount Pholoe. While Herakles was in search of the Erymanthian boar, Pholos offered him hospitality. Despite Pholos's warnings, Herakles demanded wine. When Pholos opened the wine container, the other centaurs nearby became agitated and attacked, causing Herakles to defend himself with his arrows. In some versions of the story, the wise centaur Cheiron was wounded in this incident, whereas in other versions Herakles accidentally killed Pholos by dropping a poisoned arrow on his foot. The scene depicted here shows the last moment of calm before the storm: Pholos has his hand already above the pithos and is about to pour Herakles a drink. |
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Date | circa 500 BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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terracotta medium QS:P186,Q60424 |
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height: 24 cm (9.4 in); diameter: 7.6 cm (2.9 in) dimensions QS:P2048,24U174728 dimensions QS:P2386,7.6U174728 |
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institution QS:P195,Q210081 |
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Accession number |
48.229 |
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Place of creation | Attica, Greece | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Exhibition history | Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville; San Diego Museum Of Art, San Diego; Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA), New York. 2009-2011. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Credit line | Acquired by Henry Walters, 1924 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Creative Commons
Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License and the
GNU Free Documentation License.
In the case of the text descriptions, copyright restrictions only apply to longer descriptions which cross the
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Beldam Painter: Herakles and Pholos
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q815322 |
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Title |
Herakles and Pholos |
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Description |
English: The surface of this lekythos, a vessel for holding liquids such as oil or perfume, is covered with an assortment of lines and a meander pattern on red on the neck, shoulder, and base. It likely depicts a scene from Herakles' life that was parallel to his main labors. These side-adventures, or "parerga," were entertaining and provocative narratives of interest to artists.
Here we see a draped male figure, leaning against a rock, who can be identified as Herakles by the quiver and the club above his head. He looks to the left, and as our eye moves around the side of the vase following his line of vision, we encounter a centaur, standing before a pithos and facing the hero. This has been identified as the encounter of Herakles and Pholos, a centaur who lived in the Peloponnese and dwelt in a cave on Mount Pholoe. While Herakles was in search of the Erymanthian boar, Pholos offered him hospitality. Despite Pholos's warnings, Herakles demanded wine. When Pholos opened the wine container, the other centaurs nearby became agitated and attacked, causing Herakles to defend himself with his arrows. In some versions of the story, the wise centaur Cheiron was wounded in this incident, whereas in other versions Herakles accidentally killed Pholos by dropping a poisoned arrow on his foot. The scene depicted here shows the last moment of calm before the storm: Pholos has his hand already above the pithos and is about to pour Herakles a drink. |
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Date | circa 500 BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium |
terracotta medium QS:P186,Q60424 |
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Dimensions |
height: 24 cm (9.4 in); diameter: 7.6 cm (2.9 in) dimensions QS:P2048,24U174728 dimensions QS:P2386,7.6U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q210081 |
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Accession number |
48.229 |
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Place of creation | Attica, Greece | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Object history |
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Exhibition history | Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville; San Diego Museum Of Art, San Diego; Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA), New York. 2009-2011. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Credit line | Acquired by Henry Walters, 1924 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source |
Walters Art Museum:
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Permission ( Reusing this file) |
|
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This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the
Walters Art Museum as part of a
cooperation project. All artworks in the photographs are in
public domain due to age. The photographs of two-dimensional objects are also in the public domain. Photographs of three-dimensional objects and all descriptions have been released under the
Creative Commons
Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License and the
GNU Free Documentation License.
In the case of the text descriptions, copyright restrictions only apply to longer descriptions which cross the
threshold of originality.
العربيَّة | English | français | italiano | македонски | русский | sicilianu | +/− |
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse |
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This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. ![]() |
This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. |
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.htmlGFDLGNU Free Documentation Licensetruetrue |
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