ATTRIBUTED TO THE DEL CHIARO PAINTER, CIRCA 375 B.C.

According to J. Frel ("A New Etruscan Vase Painter at Malibu," in Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum 2, pp. 145-158), the Del Chiaro Painter "must have learned his craft from Attic cups from the workshop of the Jena Paitner..." The splendid cup presented here is the best preserved of his known works, and is noteworthy for the elaborate treatment of Dionysos' and especially Ariadne's drapery. For the drapery compare that of Artemis on a fragment in the Getty, Frel, op. cit., figs. 11a-b, and for a similar Dionysos, see fig. 15.