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K15.4 CHIRON & NEREID

Chiron & Nereid | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Catalogue No. Boston 1972.850
Beazley Archive No. 5958
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Krater, Calyx
Painter Attributed to the Niobid Painter
Date ca 460 - 450 B.C.
Period Early Classical

DESCRIPTION

Upper register: Detail of the centaur Chiron from a painting depicting Peleus' capture of the Nereid Thetis. The centaur is depicted with the full body of man including human legs and feet with an equine torse and rear-legs attached to his rump. He is clothed in a chiton and holds a branch-staff in his hand. To his right, one of the Nereid Nymphs flees the scene of her sister Thetis' capture.
Lower register: Boreas pursuing Oreithyia (see other image).

ARTICLES

Chiron, Nereids

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Peleus & Thetis

P13.5B Peleus

Thumbnail Nereids

P13.5 Nereids

Thumbnail Boreas & Oreithyia

T28.2 Boreas