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T1.5 GIGANTE & GAEA

Gigante & Gaea | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection National Archaeological Museum of Naples
Catalogue No. Naples 81521
Beazley Archive No. 217517
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Krater, Calyx
Painter Attributed to the Pronomos Painter
Date ca 425 - 375 B.C.
Period Late Classical

DESCRIPTION

Detail of a Gigante and Gaea (the Earth) from a painting depicting the Gigantomachia (War of the Giants). The earth-goddess is depicted as matronly woman half-risen from the earth. The giant is cloaked in a panther skin and wields a large boulder.

ARTICLES

Gigantes, Gaea