The Kleophrades Painter
Michael Padgett, Princeton University

12. Shapes: Bell-Kraters and Column-Kraters

The painter's bell-krater with lug handles, in Basel, may have been inspired by the Berlin Painter, who introduced the shape.[67] Hermes and the satyr treading grapes are isolated on opposite sides, set against an uncluttered black background in a manner often effectively employed by the Berlin Painter.[68] A fragment from the Kerameikos, with a satyr, represents the Kleophrades Painter's only known column-krater, a shape also decorated a few times by the Berlin Painter but more at home in the early mannerist workshop.[69]

67. Basel BS 482 (ARV2, 1632, 49 bis); Greifenhagen 1972 pl. 29. For bell-kraters by the Berlin Painter, see ARV2, 205-6, 123-26. A lug from a second bell-krater by the Kleophrades Painter is in the Cahn coll., Basel; Para., 341, 49 ter (not bis).

68. Cf. especially the composition (not the shape) of the Europa krater, Tarquinia RC 7456 (ARV2, 206, 126).