Attributed To: CARLSRUHE PARIS, P OF THE by BEAZLEY MEIDIAS P by MILCHHOFER
Decoration: Body: DIONYSOS (BEARDLESS) WITH THYRSOS, MAENADS, SOME WITH THYRSOI, ONE SEATED WITH TYMPANON, SATYR SEATED PLAYING PIPES Shoulder: JUDGEMENT OF PARIS SEATED IN PATTERNED SUIT AND PERSIAN CAP, SEATED WITH CLUB (?), HERMES, ATHENA, HERA, APHRODITE SEATED, BOTH WITH SCEPTRES, WOMEN, SOME NAMED, ZEUS, HELIOS IN CHARIOT, ERIS, EROTES, TREE, DOG
Last Recorded Collection: Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum: B36
Previous Collections:
Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum: 259
Publication Record: Albersmeier, S. (ed.), Heroes, Mortals and Myths in ancient Greece (Baltimore, 2009): 54, FIG.24 (PART OF BD1 AND BD2) Arafat, K., Classical Zeus, A Study in Art and Literature (Oxford, 1990): 118, FIG.2 (DRAWING) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1315.1, 1690 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 459.3 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 477 Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.294 (DRAWING AND PARTS) Boardman, J., The history of Greek vases, potters, painters and pictures (London, 2001): 274, FIG.303 (PART OF BD2) Bollettino d'Arte: 76 (1991) 68-69, 19, FIG.10 (DRAWING OF PART) Burn, L., The Meidias Painter (Oxford, 1987): PLS.39-41 Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.292 (DRAWING) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 362 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: KARLSRUHE, BADISCHES LANDESMUSEUM 1, 28-29, PLS.(320,321,322) 22.4-5, 23.1, 24.1-5 View Whole CVA Plates Creuzer, F., Zur Gallerie der alten Dramatiker, Auswahl unedirter griechischer Thongefässe der Grossherzoglichen Badischen Sammlung in Karlsruhe (Heidelberg, 1832): PL.1 Cuadrado Diaz, E., La panoplia iberica de "El Cigarralejo" (Mula-Murcia) (Murcia, 1989): 128, PL.12.1 (PART OF BD1) Dietrich, N., Figur ohne Raum? Bäume und Felsen in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Image & Context 7 (Berlin, 2010): 286, FIG.229 (PART OF BD1) Dowden, K. and Livingstone, N. (eds.), A Companion to Greek Mythology (Malden, 2011): 169, FIG.8.10 (BD1) Dreyfus R. and Schraudolph, E., Pergamon, The Telephos Frieze from the Great Altar I (San Francisco, 1996): 41, FIG.2 (DRAWING OF BD1) Furtwängler, A. and Reichhold, K., Griechische Vasenmalerei (Munich, 1904-32): PL.30 Gherchanoc, F., Concours de beaute et beautes du corps en Grece ancienne (Bordeaux, 2016): 42, FIG.13 (BD1) Hedreen, G., Capturing Troy, The Narrative Functions of Landscape in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Art (Ann Arbor, 2001): FIG.47 (PART) Isler-Kerenyi, C., Dionysos in Classical Athens. An Understanding through Images (Leiden and Boston, 2014): 203, FIG.107 (PART OF BD2) Kunze-Götte, E., Myrte (Kilchberg, 2006): 77, 79, FIGS.34A-B (BD, PART OF BD) Kéi, N., L'esthétique des fleurs, kosmos, poikilia et kharis dans la céramique attique du VIe et du Ve siècle av. n. ère, ICON 22 (Berlin and Boston, 2022): 91, FIG.66 (PART OF SH) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.637, HELIOS 94 (PART) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.35, KLYMENE VI 1 (PART OF BD1) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.19, OINONE 5 (PART), PL.117, PARIDIS IUDICIUM 50 (BD1, PART OF BD1) Nicole, G., Meidias et le style fleuri (Geneva, 1908): PL.2 BOTTOM Pfuhl, E., Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen (Munich, 1923): FIG.595 Schlesier, R. (ed.), A Different God? Dionysos and Ancient Polytheism (Berlin and Boston, 2011): PL.47, FIG.3 (PART OF BD2) Schöne, A., Der Thiasos, Eine ikonographische Untersuchung über das Gefolge des Dionysos i.d. att. Vasenmalerei des 6.u.5. Jhs.v.Chr. (Goteborg,1987): PL.28.1 (PART) Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, The Representation of Abstract Concepts 600-400 BC (Zurich, 1993): 58, 60, 87, FIGS.13, 15, 40 (DRAWING, PARTS) Sparkes, B.A., The Red and the Black (London, 1996): 128, FIG.V.9 (PART OF BD1) Spivey, N. and Rasmussen, T. (eds.) Looking at Greek Vases (Cambridge, 1991): 119, FIG.49 Welter, F., Aus der Karlsruher Vasensammlung (Offenburg,1920): PLS.18-20
CAVI Lemma: RF hydria. From Ruvo. Painter of Carlsruhe Paris{1}. Late fifth. 420-400
(Shapiro). 400-390 (CVA).
CAVI Subject: Upper row: Judgment of Paris, with six extra figures, one unnamed. Lower row:
Dionysus with maenads and satyrs.
CAVI Inscriptions: Upper scene: above the heads: Ζευς. Κλυμενη. Ηρα. Αθηναα{2}. Αλεξανδρος. To
upper right of Eris' head: Ερις. Ερμη[ς]{3}. Αφροδιτη. Ευτυχια.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} "Laboured copies of the Meidias Painter." (ARV[2]). {2} facs. in FR, 142,
n. 2. {3} ERMH, pl. 30 (Reichhold); Ερμη., FR, text; ΕΡΜΗΣ, CVA.
CAVI Comments: = 259. Klymene attends Hera; Eutychia and another attend Aphrodite. At the
top, Eris emerges. Zahn suggests Oinone (Paris-beloved before Helen) for the
unnamed figure. Note the peculiar alphas (with vertical cross bar) and the tau
with two dots.
CAVI Number: 4041
AVI Bibliography: FR (1904–32), i, 141-45, pl. 30 (dr.). — G. Hafner, CVA Karlsruhe 1, Germany
7 (1951), pls. 22,4-5, 23, 24,1-5. — ARV[2] (1963), 1315/1, 1619. — Para.
(1971), 477. — LIMC i (1981), 499, Alexandros 12. — E. Zahn (1983), 588-89, fig.
3. — LIMC ii (1984), 122, Aphrodite 1275; 99, Athena 412. — LIMC ii (1984), 99,
Athena 412. — LIMC iii (1986), 453, Dionysos 316; 848, Eris 8. — LIMC iii
(1986), 848, Eris 8. — Burn (1987), 65, 100/C 1, pls. 39-41. — Add.[2] (1989),
362 (much bibl.). — Boardman (1989), fig. 294 (after FR, pl. 30 (de., shows
location of inscriptions). — AttScr (1990), no. 809. — Shapiro (1993), 233/14,
58-61, figs. 13 (dr. after Nicole (1908), pl. 2,2), 15, and 40 (phs., details).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
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