Amphora with a Youthful Dancer Attributed to the Berlin Painter in the Getty Villa, July 2008

Storage Jar with a Youthful Dancer
Greek, made in Athens, about 480 BC
Terracotta
Red-figured neck amphora attributed to the Berlin Painter

Inventory # 86.AE.187

A youthful dancer crowned with an ivy wreath performs while holding a wine cup. The Berlin Painter skillfully captured the body's movements and musculature with a few lines. His compositions often feature a single figure on each side of a vessel, surrounded by an expanse of black glaze.

Text from the Getty Villa museum label.