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Detail of a Kylix with a Crouching Satyr Attributed to Makron in the Getty Villa, June 2016

Detail of a Kylix with a Crouching Satyr Attributed to Makron in the Getty Villa, June 2016
Wine Cup with a Crouching Satyr
Greek, made in Athens, about 480 BC
Terracotta
Red-figured kylix attributed to Makron as painter.

Inventory # 86.AE.291

To complete the image of a crouching satyr holding a skyphos (wine cup), the artist Makron used thick relief lines of black gloss to define the contours of the figure and dilute gloss to sketch the musculature. Scholars believe that Makron was one of the most prominent craftsmen in Athens during the early fifth century BC; more of his work survives than that of any other vase painter.

Text from the Getty Villa museum label.

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