MAKE A MEME View Large Image The Affecter - Black-Figure Amphora - Walters 4811 - Side A.jpg The vase painter known as The Affecter had a long career beginning before 550 BC and lasting into the 520s His style is one of the most easily recognized in all of Greek ...
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Keywords: The Affecter - Black-Figure Amphora - Walters 4811 - Side A.jpg The vase painter known as The Affecter had a long career beginning before 550 BC and lasting into the 520s His style is one of the most easily recognized in all of Greek vase-painting characterized by thick figures with tiny heads and exaggerated angular joints Both sides of the amphora show scenes of the messenger-god Hermes leading the wine-god Dionysus towards a woman perhaps Ariadne wife of Dionysus who welcomes them in the company of satyrs ca 540 530 BC Archaic terracotta cm 60 27 accession number 48 11 28180 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome no 218 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Undercover Stories in Art The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1980 place of origin Athens Greece Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek black-figure pottery in the Walters Art Museum The Affecter Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review
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