Hypnos - Ancient Greek Vase Painting (original) (raw)

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N13.1 HYPNOS

Leda & the Swan | Apulian red figure vase painting

DETAILS

Museum Collection The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu
Catalogue No. Malibu 86.AE.680
Beazley Archive No. N/A
Ware Apulian Red Figure
Shape Loutrophoros
Painter Attributed to the Painter of Louvre MNB 1148
Date ca. 350 - 340 B.C.
Period Late Classical

DESCRIPTION

Detail of Hypnos from a painting depicting the tale of Leda and the Swan.

Hypnos, the god of sleep, is depicted as a naked, long-haired youth with winged boots and a winged brow holding a (yew?) branch. In myth his wand dripped with the somnolent waters of the river Lethe.

ARTICLES

Hypnos

OTHER IMAGES

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Thumbnail Astrape

T32.1 Astrape

Thumbnail Demeter & Plutus

K26.1 Demeter

Thumbnail Siren

O21.1 Siren