Naxian sphinx on an Ionic column, Delphi.Īrchaeological Museum, Delphi. Doric columns at the Temple of Hera I, Paestum, Italy. Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, NY. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1914 (14.130.12). A foot-race at the Panathenaic Games in Athens. Model of a Temple, found in the Sanctuary of Hera, Argos. 560 BCE (background), and The Temple of Hera II,Ĭa. Photograph © 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Henry Lillie Pierce Fund 98.923. Vaphio Cup, from a tomb at Vaphio, south of Sparta, Greece.Ĭa. Grand Staircase, east wing, palace complex at Knossos, Crete, as reconstructed Reconstruction drawing of the new palace complex at Knossos, Crete National Archaeological Museum, Iráklion, Crete. From the palace complex at Knossos, Crete.Ĭa. Room 5, West House, Akrotiri, Thera.īefore 1623 BCE. Map: The City-states of Ancient Greece.The Acropolis, Athens, Greece, as rebuilt post 479 BCE. Spivey also pursues the figural motif of the slain Sarpedon portrayed on the vase and traces how this motif became a standard way of representing the dead and dying in Western art, especially during the Renaissance.įascinating and informative, The Sarpedon Krater is a multifaceted introduction to the enduring influence of Greek art on the world. He explains where, how, and why the vase was produced, retrieving what we know about the life and legend of Sarpedon. Spivey takes the reader on a dramatic journey, beginning with the krater’s looting from an Etruscan tomb in 1971 and its acquisition by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, followed by a high-profile lawsuit over its status and its eventual return to Italy. How this came about is told by Nigel Spivey in a concise, stylish book that braids together the creation and adventures of this extraordinary object with an exploration of its abiding influence. It was decorated some 2,500 years ago by Athenian artist Euphronios, and its subsequent history involves tomb raiding, intrigue, duplicity, litigation, international outrage, and possibly even homicide. Perhaps the most spectacular of all Greek vases, the Sarpedon krater depicts the body of Sarpedon, a hero of the Trojan War, being carried away to his homeland for burial.
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