Fragment of a terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Euphronios
ca. 515 BCE
Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
Overall: 3 1/8 x 3 5/8 in. (7.9 x 9.2 cm)
Classification
Vases
Culture & Period
Greek, Attic · Archaic
Department
Greek and Roman Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Ariel Herrmann, in memory of Lydia Mannara, 2001
Accession Number
2001.563
About the Artist
Euphronios
Euphronios was a vase painter and potter working in the red-figure technique in Athens from about 520 to 470 BCE. He signed his name on eighteen vases, six times as painter and twelve times as potter. To judge by their drawing style, the vases that he signed as potter seem to be later than those he signed as painter. In his early career Euphronios was one of a group of Athenian vase painters who h...