The François Vase, also known as the Kleitias Krater, is a large Attic volute krater decorated in the black-figure style, which stands at 66 cm in height and is dated approximately at 570 BC. It was created and painted in Attica by the vase maker Ergotimos and the vase painter Kleitias.
It was found in 1844/1845 in an Etruscan tomb near Chiusi, Italy, and was named after its discoverer Alessandro Francois. It depicts over 270 figures, many with identifying inscriptions, representing a number of mythological themes, some of which portrayed here for the first time in ancient Greek art. In 1900 a museum guard threw a stool at the case that contained the vase and smashed it into 638 pieces. It was restored in 1902 by Pietro Zei, while a second reconstruction, in 1973, incorporated a previously missing piece. It is now guarded at the Archaeological Museum of Florence.
Narration: Prof. Nicholas Chr. Stampolidis
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