Deities - XVII: Dionysos’ by Exekias

Dionysus appears in the inner decoration of this eye-kylix, cup, one of Exekias's latest works.
On the outside beyond the eyes hoplites fight grimly across the handles.
An extraordinary design fills the bowl's interior: at the center, Dionysos reclines on a sailing ship as grapevines laden with seven bunches miraculously sprout beside its mast, while seven dolphins swim in a coral-red sea around the boat. The vessel's (now-much-restored) bold, large white sail is effective against the coral red, but not so Dionysos's drinking horn painted in matt purplish added red.
The black-figured eye-cup, one of the most famous Athenian vases, is the earliest known use of coral red. The kylix (535 B.C.) is signed by Exekias as potter, which he painted as well as potted. Exekias was the greatest of black-figure artists, and he brought the style to its limits. It is hardly credible that so much human dignity and pathos can be expressed in so artificial a convention.
Exported from Athens in antiquity, this large cup with a diameter of 30.5 cm was found in an Etruscan tomb at Vulci.

Source Beth Cohen, “The Color of Clay”

CARC/CAVI @ www.beazley.ox.ac.uk

Attic black-figured kylix
Attributed to Exekias as potter & painter
Made in Athens, ca. 530 BC
From Vulci, Viterbo
Munich, Antikensammlungen.

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Taken on: December 6, 2015

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