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T1.7B GAEA & ERICHTHONIUS

Gaea & Erichthonius | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Catalogue No. Richmond 81.70
Beazley Archive No. 10158
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Krater, Calyx
Painter Attributed to the Manner of Kadmos Painter
Date -
Period Classical

DESCRIPTION

Detail of Gaea, goddess of the earth, holding her infant son Erichthonius. The earth-mother is depicted as a matronly woman with a generous figure. She wears an elaborate crown, or wreath, of sprouting spring flowers and bulbs.

ARTICLES

Gaea

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