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T1.1B GAEA

Gaea | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Antikensammlung Berlin
Catalogue No. Berlin F2531
Beazley Archive No. 220533
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Kylix
Painter Signed by Aristophanes
Date ca. 410 - 400 B.C.
Period Classical

DESCRIPTION

Detail of Gaea from a painting depicting the Gigantomachia (War of the Giants).

Gaea the Earth raises her hands, pleading for the lives of her Gigante sons as they are slaughtered in a battle with the gods. She is depicted as a matronly woman half-risen from the ground with a heavy belly, full face, short, curly hair and spiked, stephane crown.

ARTICLES

Gaea

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