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O12.8 HERACLES & CENTAURS

Heracles & Centaurs | Apulian red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Rhode Island School of Design Museum, New York
Catalogue No. RISD 22.215
Beazley Archive No. N/A
Ware Apulian Red Figure
Shape Krater, Calyx
Painter Attributed to Painter of the Berlin Dancing Girl
Date ca. 430 - 420 B.C.
Period Classical

DESCRIPTION

Heracles, or perhaps Theseus, battles a pair of Centaurs. The hero wields a knotted club and the half-horse men stones.

ARTICLES

Arcadian Centaurs, Thessalian Centaurs