3746300 Red figure column-krater with artist painting a statue of Herakles, c.360-50 (terracotta) by Greek, (4th century BC); height: 51.5 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: bowl for mixing wine and water from South Italy, Apulia Rare representation of the craft of applying pigment to stone sculpture using the technique of encaustic. The painter in characteristic cap and his upper body bare, applies a mixture of pigment and wax with a spatula to Herakles??lionskin while Zeus, Nike and Herakles himself look on. ); Greek, out of copyright.