The Kleophrades Painter
Michael Padgett, Princeton University

11. Shapes: Volute-Kraters Part 2

The volute-krater with a double frieze on the neck, also in the Getty, has Herakles battling Amazons in the upper register, and in the lower frieze, Peleus wrestling Thetis and more deeds of Herakles: the Hydra, Geryon, and the Garden of the Hesperides (Malibu 77.AE.11; Illustration 70; Illustration 71; Illustration 72; Illustration 73). [65]

Illustration 70	Illustration 71
Illustration 72	Illustration 73

The smallness of the figures on these and other volute-kraters with decoration on the neck necessitated some abbreviation and compression of the painter's normal style, but his hand is unmistakable; cf. the figures on the necks of his two pointed amphorae, discussed below. Only one of his volute-kraters, represented by fragments in Paris and Bonn, had a large picture on the body.[66] The subject is again drawn from the Trojan War: the Psychostasia of Achilles and Memnon, with Hermes weighing their fates before Zeus and Thetis.