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Valérie Giess-Bevilacqua, « Un vase attique post-parthénonien : le cratère de Londres E 466 », Histoire de l'art, ID : 10.3406/hista.1998.2829
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A post-parthenonian attic vase : the E 466 London crater. This article wishes to provide a thorough analysis — mainly through iconography — of a chalice-shaped crater kept in the British Museum in London, whose attribution and dating pose problems. Its theme looks conventional : a pursuit scene between Eos and Cephalos surrounded by astral figures. Nevertheless, the treatment is uncommon and only the decor of a Neapolitan hydria by the Painter of Coghill appears close to it. As a matter of fact, an attribution to Polygnotos’ atelier, more precisely to the Painter of Dinos’ circle, seems very probable owing to iconographie or stylistic analogies with works like the necked amphora in Arezzo. Besides, this type of «astral composition » appears rather at the end of the 5th century, under the influence of the Parthenon’s sculptures, achieving its full bloom with the flowered style (Painter of Médias and his circle). Therefore the London vase can be dated ca. 420 B.C.