Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Göttingen Painter

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

On the body, obverse, Herakles and Kyknos Reverse, two revelers On the neck, obverse, on white-ground, hunters and hounds On the topside of the lip, animals The transition from black-figure to red-figure among Athenian artists was neither rapid nor orderly. While the Göttingen Painter used the new technique for the main subjects, he decorated the neck of the obverse in the outmoded combination of silhouette on white-ground. On the lip, he reverted to a practice favored during the second quarter of the sixth century B.C. by black-figure painters.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than thirty thousand works ranging in date from the Neolithic period (ca. 4500 B.C.) to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312. It includes the art of many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America. The geographic regions represented are Greece and Italy, but not as delimited by modern political frontiers: Greek colonies were established around the Mediterranean basin and on the shores of the Black Sea, and Cyprus became increasingly Hellenized. For Roman art, the geographical limits coincide with the expansion of the Roman Empire. The department also exhibits the art of prehistoric Greece (Helladic, Cycladic, and Minoan) and pre-Roman art of Italic peoples, notably the Etruscans.

Metropolitan Museum of Art