An Apulian Red-figured Column Krater, attributed to the Painter of the Truro Pelike. Circa 350-330 B.C.
Painted in front with a standing woman and a seated youth, and on the back with two youths flanking a plant, the details in added white and yellow. Height 44.2 cm.
From an oil flask (lekythos) with the hunter Kephalos and his dog by the Pan Painter, c. 470 B.C. Original below the cut.
[Image ID: adaptation of a Greek vase painting. Celegorm from Tolkien’s legendarium is standing in front of a large dog holding a spear in one hand and a club in the other. He wears a red cloak with a Star of Fëanor on it. He has a long white braid and pointed ear.]
If you are interested, I’m offering limited edition prints on my Etsy store; if you order all 4, they come 4 seperate pages with an original copies of the type - writer typed translations!
I’ve translated four poems by Zbigniew Herbert and illustrated them for an exhibition in Canary Wharf ‘Creative Lockdown’ that happened at the end of August. What a great experience!
I completely forgot to post this one. I made it a while ago and it got published in a history textbook. Just Heraclitus running around Ephesus with a bunch of kids.
