Fine Canvas Art Blog

This is a wonder of the Greek Classical period portraying the tender moment when Achilles tends an arrow wound of his companion Patroclus.  This painted pottery dates from about 500 years Before the Common Era and was found at Vulci, an Etruscan city about sixty miles northwest of Rome.  The pottery, however, was produced in Athens and is usually attributed to the Sosias Painter, but is also attributed to the Kleophrades Painter or Euthymides.  The intimate scene comes from an imagined incident in Homer’s Iliad.  The original is in the Antikensammlung Museum, Berlin.

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