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Black-Figure Neck-Amphora   (  )
Artist	Group of Würzburg 199       Description Greek black-figure vase painter Work period between circa 530 and circa 510 BC Work location Attica Authority file : Q18508254 VIAF: 132430838 ULAN: 500107869 artist QS:P170,Q18508254 Circle of Antimenes Painter  (fl. 515 BC date QS:P,–0515–00–00T00:00:00Z/9 )     Alternative names Antimenes painter Description Greek black-figure vase painter and Attic vase-painter Date of birth 6th century BC date QS:P,-550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7   Work period between circa 530 and circa 510 BC Work location Kerameikos  Authority file : Q577906 VIAF: 13106399 ISNI: 0000000103319066 ULAN: 500003458 LCCN: n91007212 GND: 118921398 WorldCat artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1776,Q577906
Title	Black-Figure Neck-Amphora
Description	English: Both sides of this amphora are decorated with themes concerning Achilles' conception and the accession to manhood. Side A refers to him indirectly, showing the encounter and the binding of his parents: the divine Nereid Thetis and the mortal hero Peleus, who was renowned for his many glorious deeds. The union of supernatural and human resulted in Achilles, immortal through the efforts of his mother but for his vulnerable heel. Peleus found Thetis with her sisters on a beach, managed to abduct and marry her, despite her threatening metamorphoses. The hero wears a "chitoniskos," an outfit commonly associated in the visual arts with heroes and hunters. The animal skin that he wears and his sword signal his heroic spirit. The wreath of olive branches on his head foretells the victorious ending of his attempt. The marine goddess does not show any indication of undergoing a transformation, as she often does in other representations of this episode. In the second scene (Side B) Achilles is a young boy. The episode is the entrusting of the hero to the wise centaur Cheiron, a renowned teacher. Peleus is depicted as a mature and gentle father, unarmed, with a "chlamys" and a staff. He is handing his child over to Cheiron, who has already taken hold of his student with his left arm. The infant Achilles raises both arms toward his father in a tender gesture.
Date	between circa 520 and circa 510 BC (Archaic Greece era QS:P2348,Q271834 )
Medium	terracotta medium QS:P186,Q60424
Dimensions	height: 40.6 cm (15.9 in); diameter: 26.7 cm (10.5 in) dimensions QS:P2048,40.6U174728 dimensions QS:P2386,26.7U174728
Collection	Walters Art Museum    Native name Walters Art Museum Location Baltimore, United States of America Coordinates 39° 17′ 48″ N, 76° 36′ 58″ W   Established 1934  Website thewalters.org Authority file : Q210081 VIAF: 128918374 ISNI: 000000040373611X ULAN: 500279110 LCCN: no00096900 GND: 16029354-6 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number	48.18
Place of creation	Athens, Greece
Object history	Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, before 1897 [mode of acquisition unknown] [cat. no. 203] 1902: purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history	Coming of Age in Ancient Greece. Hood Museum of Art, Hanover; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA), New York. 2003-2004. Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville; San Diego Museum Of Art, San Diego; Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA), New York. 2009-2011.
Credit line	Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
Source	Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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