Berlin chalice crater by the Berlin dancer painter
The Berlin chalice crater of the Berlin dancers painter is a frühapulisch - red-figure calyx crater , the v in the period around 440/430. Is dated. It is the name vase of the painter of the Berlin dancer .
The central picture shows an older girl taking dance class. She has spread her arms and is balancing on her toes. The body is taut and tense. The flowing hem shows that the young dancer is apparently doing a turn. She is dressed in a short, belted Doric chiton , arms and legs are bare. While the chiton falls loosely for the most part and hardly suggests any contours, the painter has delicately hinted at the contours of the breasts, probably to describe the approximate age of the girl. She wears her curly hair high and a cruciform earring in her ear. In the right half of one on one is Klismos seated Doppelaulosspielerin displayed. The effort of the young woman while playing her instrument is clearly visible, her cheeks are distended. She wears a longer robe, only her arms and feet are uncovered. She sets the pace for the music with her foot. The hair is covered by a hood. The case of the aulos hangs on the wall. The second side of the picture shows a bearded teacher with an arm resting on a stick on the left side, who rebukes his young student. Between the two, the painter shows a column that is supposed to mark the location, a gymnasium . The youth is completely wrapped in his coat, while the teacher leaves half his torso bare. The image fields are bordered by a meander strip at the bottom and a strip of bay leaves at the top .
Both sides of the picture have a similar theme: the education of adolescents. For the education of male children there are often images on vases, especially from the gymnastic environment. Representations of the education of girls are comparatively rare. On the one hand, dance was part of the training canon that a girl should learn before marriage; on the other hand, ritual celebrations, often combined with dance, were among the rare occasions on which daughters from wealthy families were allowed to leave their protected homes. Perhaps that is here Dance of Peplophoren shown in which girls as individual dancers in honor of Demeter , the only with a peplum clothed her kidnapped daughter Persephone was looking for, only with a peplum clothed dances aufführten.
The work captivates with its dynamism, which is rarely found in this form in vase painting, vase pictures generally convey a static impression.
The crater was acquired from Theodor Panofka's estate in 1858 . Today it is exhibited in the Berlin Collection of Antiquities under the inventory number F 2400 . The vase, which is well preserved apart from a few bumps, is 26.5 centimeters high and also measures 26.5 centimeters in diameter.
literature
- Ursula Kästner : Education for the privileged , In: Annika Backe-Dahmen , Ursula Kästner, Agnes Schwarzmaier : Of gods and people. Pictures on Greek vases , Wasmuth and Scala, Berlin and Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8030-3331-4 , pp. 62–63, p. 125 (literature).