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H1.4 ACRISIUS & DANAE

Acrisius & Danae | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Catalogue No. Boston 13.200
Beazley Archive No. 202466
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Hydria
Painter Attributed to the Gallatin Painter
Date ca 490 B.C.
Period Late Archaic

DESCRIPTION

King Acrisius commands that his daughter Danae and her son Perseus be set adrift at sea in a chest. The figures from left to right are Acrisius, a carpenter, Queen Eurydice or a nurse, and Danae holding the infant Perseus.

ARTICLES

Danae, Perseus