Red-Figure Pottery in Greek Art

Apulian Eumenides Painter

Pottery painters in Greek-colonized southern Italy followed the red-figure Attic pottery model and expanded on it, beginning in the mid-fifth century B.C. The "Eumenides Painter" was so named because of his topic, the Oresteia. This is a photo of a red-figure bell krater (380-370), showing Clytemnestra trying to awaken the Erinyes. A bell krater is one of the forms of the krater, a pottery vessel with glazed interior, used for mixing wine and water. Besides the bell-shape, there are column, calyx, and volute kraters. This bell krater is at the Louvre.