Thursday, September 11, 2008

The Euphronios Krater

In discussing my previous questions with an outside expert, i.e., my mother-in-law, she recalled an interesting bit of news about the Euphronios krater, on p. 136 of the second edition of Stokstad's Art History, fig. 5-28. The krater is captioned in the book as Euphronios (painter) and Euxitheos (potter). Death of Sarpedon. c. 515 BCE. Red-figure decoration on a calyx krater. Ceramic, height of crater 18" (45.7 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. She emailed me an article from the New York Times about the Metropolitan Museum of Art returning the krater to Italy as the Met had apparently acquired the krater from grave robbers in the 1970s. Click here to see the Wikipedia article about the krater which includes links to another New York Times article as well as other sources. Notably, the Wiki's links to the Met's collection database and a description of the piece at the Met's site are broken. A search of the Met's collection database for the piece yields no results.

P.S. I went ahead and edited the wikipedia entry to delete the out of date links to the Met and add the link to the New York Times article my mil sent me.

Click here to return to Art History Reading Group home page

2 comments:

annahou said...

The crater you are referring to, is now being exhibited in the New Museum of Acropolis in Athens. Actually within the context of the "Nostoi" exhibition, I don't know if it will be on permanent display.

Sarah said...

Anna, thank you for that awesome lead on the current location of "The Euphronios Krater!"
The New Acropolis Museum states the "Nostoi" exhibition "presents 74 pieces that were returned to Italy from various American museums." The Greek word "Nostoi" translates to English as "returns."