From Iliad – I: Briseis’ Abduction
On the skyphos the painter Macron has painted the abduction of Briseis by Agamemnon Eurybates from Achilles’ tent, Iliad’s Canto 1, lines 330−48. The bearded king, wearing his breastplate embellished with lambrequins, is armed with his spear and sword, which is slipped into a scabbard whose end is adorned with a lion's head. He is seizing young Briseis by the arm; her chiton and himation cover her head. The two figures are followed by the heralds Talthybios and Diomedes, who are named in the inscriptions. They are each wearing a petasus, a chlamys and endromides (boots). The inscriptions reading, from left, Αγ[α]μεσμο[ν] - Θαλ(θ)υβιος{3} – Διομεδες identify the male characters.
This skyphos, signed by the potter Hieron and attributed to Macron by J.D. Beazley, is an example of the collaboration between the potter and the painter during the early part of the fifth century BC. Macron, one of the most prolific artists in Attic red-figure pottery (around 350 vases are attributed to him), signed very few vases as a painter but worked constantly with the potter Hieron, whose signature appears on around 30 cups.
Source: Notice Louvre WEB site
CARC / CAVI @ www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
Attic red figure skyphos
Heigh 31 cm.; diameter 28 cm.; width 40 cm.
Attributed to Macron as painter by Beazley & Hieron as potter by signature “hιερον επο”
Late Archaic Period
Ca. 480 BC
Paris, Musée du Louvre – Inv G 146
From Iliad – I: Briseis’ Abduction
On the skyphos the painter Macron has painted the abduction of Briseis by Agamemnon Eurybates from Achilles’ tent, Iliad’s Canto 1, lines 330−48. The bearded king, wearing his breastplate embellished with lambrequins, is armed with his spear and sword, which is slipped into a scabbard whose end is adorned with a lion's head. He is seizing young Briseis by the arm; her chiton and himation cover her head. The two figures are followed by the heralds Talthybios and Diomedes, who are named in the inscriptions. They are each wearing a petasus, a chlamys and endromides (boots). The inscriptions reading, from left, Αγ[α]μεσμο[ν] - Θαλ(θ)υβιος{3} – Διομεδες identify the male characters.
This skyphos, signed by the potter Hieron and attributed to Macron by J.D. Beazley, is an example of the collaboration between the potter and the painter during the early part of the fifth century BC. Macron, one of the most prolific artists in Attic red-figure pottery (around 350 vases are attributed to him), signed very few vases as a painter but worked constantly with the potter Hieron, whose signature appears on around 30 cups.
Source: Notice Louvre WEB site
CARC / CAVI @ www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
Attic red figure skyphos
Heigh 31 cm.; diameter 28 cm.; width 40 cm.
Attributed to Macron as painter by Beazley & Hieron as potter by signature “hιερον επο”
Late Archaic Period
Ca. 480 BC
Paris, Musée du Louvre – Inv G 146