GERONTARAS-MUSEUM REPLICAS (BLACK FIGURE POTTERY SOPHILOS PAINTER )

Black-figured bowl (dinos) and stand, signed by Sophilos as painter (British museum ) Greek, about 580 BC Made in Athens, Greece The wedding procession of Peleus and Thetis The animal friezes on this black-figured bowl recall contemporary Corinthian vase paintings. However, the figure scene that occupies the highest register shows the new direction in which Athenian vase painting was moving. It shows gods, goddesses, nymphs and others processing to the house of the hero Peleus to celebrate his wedding to