Attributed to The Perugia Painter, now combined with the Arnò Painter Etruscan
About this artwork
This vase was painted by a Greek artist who immigrated to Etruria, where Greek vases were a popular commodity. The seventh of Herakles’s Twelve Labors is shown here. Charged with capturing a monstrous bull that was terrorizing the people of Crete, the hero wields his club against the ungainly creature, watched over by King Minos on the left, the gods Apollo and Athena above, and Hermes on the right.
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Gift of Philip D. Armour and Charles L. Hutchinson
Reference Number
1889.18
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William M.R. French, Notes [on a] journey to Europe with Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Hutchinson starting from New York Sat’y Mch. 9, 1889- , p. 24.
Art Institute of Chicago, Preliminary Catalogue of Metal Work, Graeco-Italian Vases, and Antiquities, December 9, 1889 (Chicago: Early and Halla Printing Company, 1889), p. 38, no. 324.
A. Furtwängler, Neue Denkmäler antiker Kunst: Antiken in den Museen von Amerika III (Munich 1905), p. 248 no. 7 (Kleine Schriften ii, 492).
Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, vol. 5, no. 3 (January 1912), p. 43.
J.D. Beazley, “Gleanings in Etruscan red-figure”, in Festschrift Andreas Rumpf. Zum 60. Geburtstag dargebracht von Freunden und Schülern. Köln im Dezember 1950, edited by T. Dohrn (Krefeld 1952), pp. 10-11, pl. 3.
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Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC), VI (no. 228) and VII (1990).
Martine Denoyelle, “Sur la personnalite’ du peintre d’arno un point de jonction entre grande-grece et etrurie,” in Revue Archeologique, Nouvelle Serie, Fasc. 1 (1993), p. 66.
Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 18.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Myth and Legend in Classical Art, Gallery 101A, March 1, 1987-August 31, 1987.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, November 11, 2012-March 20, 2017.
The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Ancient Mediterranean Cultures in Contact, October 20, 2017-April 29, 2018.
Said to be found in Capua, 1883 [Old Register at the Art Institute of Chicago]. Augusto Mele, Naples, Italy; sold tothe Art Institute of Chicago through J.C. Fletcher as agent, 1889; price reimbursed by Philip D. Armour and Charles L. Hutchinson.
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