Apollo, god of music, playing the lyre | Greek vase, Lucanian red figure volute krater

K5.1 APOLLON

Museum Collection: The J Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California, USA
Catalogue Number: Malibu 85.AE.101
Beazley Archive Number: N/A
Ware: Lucanian Red Figure
Shape: Volute krater
Painter: Attributed to the PKP Group, probably the Palermo Painter
Period: Classical

SUMMARY

Detail of Apollon playing the lyre, from a scene depicting a company of gods. Apollon is crowned with a wreath of laurel and wears a Thracian shirt under his robes.

ARTICLES

Apollon

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