#Objectoftheday is this #Archaic #Greek #kylix with black-figure #centaur decoration and painted eyes, dated to the mid-6th century BCE. ‘Eye-cups’ such as this would act as a practical joke – when the cup was lifted to the mouth, the eyes would give the drinker a funny face . C.650
Scythian Archer or Amazon
#Attica #Kylix
c.480BC
Staatliche Antikensammlungen #Munich / SAGM
www.antike-am-koenigsplatz.mwn.de/index.php/en...
Phs©MSP/ANTIQVVS Mag
The objct ph-ed's a cllctin itm of SAGM
Sorry 4the wtrmrks
#vasepainting #ancient #pottery #archaeology #arthistory #antiqvvs #magazine
SKYTHES. RED-FIGURE KYLIX WITH LYRE PLAYER, C. 520 BCE. VILLA GIULIA This Attic wine-cup or kylix is signed by the artist Skythes, "the Scythian", whose work we know from a corpus of about 25 pieces, of which only this one has a full signature. Skythes' work is defined by his expressiveness and energy, unlike the restraint and dignity of his contemporary Epiktetos. Here we see a red-figure musician, nude, against a black hackground, his staff leaning against the red curve of the circle which defines the pictorial space. He's facing right with his knees bent, playing a lyre (more like a cithara) like a rock star, head thrown back in ecstasy, his instrument sticking out like an extension of his phallus, which we can also see as Skythes has made the body of the instrument transparent, just so we don't miss the metaphor. Sometimes a cithara is just a cithara, but this is not one of those times.
For #PhallusThursday we have a naked musician rocking out, with a vine wreath in his hair, on a red-figure #kylix in the National #Etruscan Museum of the #VillaGiulia in #Rome. The naughty vase painter #Skythes turns subtext into text - this is an ecstatic #Dionysiac image. #AncientBluesky 🏺
Ever since I was a child I've had a slight obsession with making and collecting smallish lidded boxes. This one is about 9" tall and 4.5" at the base. I'll repost the pieces when they're final fired and completed. #phylactery #handbuiltpottery #potterysky #kylix #facejugs
