The Sarpedon Krater (The Landmark Library)

Description

Once the pride of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Sarpedon krater is a wine-mixing bowl crafted by two Athenians, Euxitheos (who shaped it) and Euphronios (who decorated it), within the late 6thc BC. The moving image Euphronios created for the krater, depicting the stricken Trojan hero Sarpedon being lifted from the battlefield by ‘Sleep’ (Hypnos) and ‘Death’ (Thanatos), was once to have an influence that endured well past Antiquity.

Nigel Spivey not only explores the colourful Athenian civilization that produced the krater, but in addition reveals how its motifs were elaborated in later Greek art and within the Christian iconography of the Renaissance.

He tells the tale of a small object, once consigned to the obscurity of an Etruscan tomb – yet a murals whose influence extends some distance beyond its size and former confinement. The Sarpedon Krater is an engaging case-study of the deep classical roots of the guidelines and iconography of western art.

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