Amphora with Scenes of the Hermes and Dionysus

Description The vase painter known as "The Affecter" had a long career, beginning before 550 BCE and lasting into the 520s. His style is one of the most easily recognized in all of Greek vase-painting, characterized by thick figures with tiny heads and exaggerated, angular joints. Both sides of the amphora show scenes of the messenger-god Hermes leading the wine-god Dionysus towards a woman (perhaps Ariadne, wife of Dionysus) who welcomes them, in the company of satyrs.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
6/06/1977	Examination	examined for condition

Exhibitions

• Undercover Stories in Art. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1980.

Provenance Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [no. 218]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902