Oinochoe, wine jug, erotic motif, Antikensammlung Berlin, hand-painted, 15,6 cm height, 11 cm width, 500 g weight
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The following presentation and text excerpt was taken from the website of the University of Gießen, a specialist article on women's emancipation in Athens of the High Classics, the corresponding link can be found below (please scroll down to page 96).
A completely different atmosphere prevails in the basically similar scene on a can of the Schuwalow painter in Berlin created around 430 BC (Fig. 5). A young man with curly hair, naked down to the coat striped down to his knees, rests with elongated legs on a Klismos with elegantly swinging legs and backrest; apparently relaxed, but the slightly raised left foot, the erect limb, the chest muscles tense in the slight flexion of the upper part of the body and the firm grip on the transverse spar of the Klismos betray internal and external tension, which is compositionally absorbed by the undressed girl. The girl places her right foot on the clismos, her arms on the young man's shoulders, and leans towards him until her heads touch each other slightly. In their tense formal antithesis, the two exposed bodies casually join together to form a compositional unit, whose balanced harmony is also reflected in the relation of the picture to the vessel form. The harmony of the composition culminates in the affection of the heads for one another and the glances, which are sunk into one another, clearly separated by the arms from the physicality of the two bodies. It is not the physical union that is concrete and transfers the theme, but the spiritual union that precedes it here. Furthermore, the depiction differs substantially from the usual symposium scenes in that the actor is the girl, whose affection is restrained by the youth - but not only - reciprocated by the inclination of the head. In the absence of narrative attributes the ambience remains, as so often, consciously (?) vague, but the youthfulness and the absence of wreaths or bandages exclude a symposial context and thus support the atmosphere of internalization.
geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2013/9627/pdf/GU_1986_2_S89_101.pdf
geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2013/9627/pdf/GU_1986_2_S89_101.pdf
This Attic red figure oinochoe with an erotic motif comes from the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities. A palmette motif is painted on the back below the long-necked handle, and ornaments on the left and right are striving for, which lead into little calyxes of flowers.
The wine jug dates from 445-430 B.C., the hand-painted replica is in its original size.
A seal on the handle bears the inscription "MUSEUM COPY", back "HAND MADE IN GREECE".
A seal on the handle bears the inscription "MUSEUM COPY", back "HAND MADE IN GREECE".
This product was added to our catalog on Friday, October 19, 2018.
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