Kleophrades: pupil of Euthymides

1. Kleophrades: pupil of Euthymides

2. Vase 1 Pointed Amphora: Dionysus and followers

3. Vase 2 Hydria; Fall of Troy

4. Kleophrades: Pointed Amphora • Technique: Red figure • Shape: Pointed Amphora • Painter:Attributed to the Kleophrades painter • Potter: Kleophrades • Date:ca. 500 B.C. - 490 B.C. • Dimensions:Height. 56cm • Subject: • Body; Dionysus with maenads and silens. • Neck; Athletes exercising

5. Composition Pointed Amphora • Body: a continuous frieze around the entire vessel. • All figures on the same plane, little over lapping of figures wider spacing compared to Makron. • On neck frieze interrupted by handles

6. Subject: Body center of Side A • Dionysos moves to the right, holding in his left hand a vine branch, whose tendrils curl around him, • and in his right hand a kantharos. • He is wearing a long, transparent chiton through which his legs are visible, a mantle around his chest, and a panther skin knotted around his neck, and is crowned with an ivy wreath. • He strides to the right, looking behind him and down towards the maenad behind him.

7. Subject: Dionysus center of Side A • Dionysos moves to the right, holding in his left hand a vine branch, whose tendrils curl around him.

8. Subject: Dionysus center of Side A • Dionysos moves to the right, holding in his right hand, a kantharos.

9. Subject: Dionysus center of Side A • A panther skin knotted around his neck, and is crowned with an ivy wreath.

10. Subject: Body center of Side A • He is wearing a long, transparent chiton through which his legs are visible, a mantle around his chest,

11. Subject: Dionysus center of Side A • He strides to the right, looking behind him and down towards the maenad behind him.

12. Subject: Body • Two Maenads on either side of the god are being attacked by Silenoi. • Right Maenad fends Silenoi off with her thyrsos. • Left Maenad holds a snake.

13. Subject: Body, maenad to the left of Dionysos • She runs to the right towards Dionysos, looking back over her shoulder at the silen. • She holds a thyrsos in her right hand, and a bearded snake entwined around her left hand. • She wears a long transparent chiton, long mantles whose ends dangle almost to the ground; on her heads a bonnet t,his one wears a fawn skin in addition. • The silen is bent forward slightly, as if ducking under the handle of the vase, and grabs her thyrsos with his right hand while reaching for the hem of her chiton with his left.

15. Subject: Maenad to the right of Dionysos • She runs to the left, towards the god, looking over her shoulder and warding off the silen with her hand and thyrsos. Both these maenads wear long mantles whose ends dangle almost to the ground. • The silen reaches for her hair with his left hand and for the hem of her chiton with his left, and raises his left leg.

17. Subject: Body • The silens are nude except for fawn skins and ivy wreaths; they have horse ears and tails, beards and snub noses, and are ithyphallic.

18. Subject: Body

19. Subject: Body

20. Subject: Orgasmic Maenads & Musican Satyr • On the other side of the amphora are two ecstatic maenads and a frontal silen playing an aulos. The maenads flank and turn away from the satyr at the center of the scene, running towards Dionysos on the other side of the vase.

21. Subject: Frontal Silenoi

22. Subject: Left Ecstatic Maenad

23. Subject: Right Ecstatic Maenad

24. The right maenad • She gazes slightly upward as she runs. She carries her thyrsos on her shoulder, and a bearded snake with open mouth is entwined around her left arm.

25. The right maenad • She is wreathed with ivy and her blond hair is disheveled, painted in dilute glaze; her eyes are light-colored, like Dionysos'.

26. The right maenad • She wears the same long transparent chiton and mantle as the other maenads, and also a fawn skin.

27. Orgasmic Maenad left • This maenad seems more intoxicated: turning her face to the sky she cries out with her mouth open, clutches her thyrsos with both hands. • Her curly black hair is in small ringlets.

30. Her right foot breaks the frame of the scene, her toes over the maeander border. Orgasmic Maenad left

31. Musical Silen • Between the two maenads, the frontal silen plays the double aulos. He bends slightly to the right, and is cross-eyed and his brow furrowed, and a fawn skin is draped over his shoulders.

33. Use of colour • Purple and dilute glaze are used to great effect, with golden dilute glaze used for fawn and animal skins, Dionysos' kantharos, and the snakes held by the maenads.

34. Subject Neck • On the neck, on either side are three athletes practicing the diskos and throwing spear. The athletes are nude and wear fillets in their hair. In the background on either side are picks for loosening the earth for the long jump; on side B are an aryballos and sponge for cleaning up after exercising.

35. Side A Neck

36. Side B Neck

37. Inscriptions: • KALOS, "(he is) beautiful" twice, near the silens.

38. Kleophrades hydria • Technique: RED-FIGURE • Shape: HYDRIA • Attributed to KLEOPHRADES • Dates 490 – 480 • Height 45cm • Decorated Area: • Shoulder • Subject: Fall of troy

39. Trojan War; Homer’s Illiad • Subjects from the Trojan War are a favorite topic of the Kleophrades Painter, perhaps spurred by the tragedies of Aeschylus

40. In the center • Neoptolemos is killing Priam, who sits on the altar holding his bleeding head, his dead grandson Astyanax in his lap. Trojan women and warriors cower and fall on either side.

41. The murder of Priam

42. Pathetic palm

43. The naked Cassandra is pulled from the statue of Athena by the lesser Ajax, who does not notice Aeneas escaping with his father Anchises.

46. Illustration 123 The naked Cassandra is pulled from the statue of Athena by the lesser Ajax, who does not notice Aeneas escaping with his father Anchises.

47. On the opposite side, the sons of Theseus rescue their grandmother Aithra, and a Trojan woman attacks a Greek with a corn-pounder.

49. Rescuse of Aithra

50. Corn Pounder