Athena 's painter - a painter from Attica , an artist who worked in the black-figure style , whose work falls on 490-460 BC. e. He mainly specialized in murals of lekifs on a white background . Athena's painter was one of the last artists to create works in the black-figure style.
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Name
Since the real name of the artist is unknown, his pseudonym is used, which was fixed to him because of the image of the goddess Athena on his name vase . Athena often appeared in the works of the vase painter.
Workshop and Style
Like the Theseusian vase painter , Athena's vase painter continued the tradition of creating images on large lekifs; in addition, this artist studied the art of vase painting in the same workshop as the Theseusee painter - the Edinburgh workshop of the painter . His work is of high quality. In addition to the lekifs, he also painted oinohoys. His leciths resemble the work of the Edinburgh vase painter because of its standard shape and patterns on the shoulders, which patterns consisted of five palmettes between the points.
Some scholars often identify Athena’s vase painter with Bowdin’s vase painter , who worked primarily in the red-figure style , but most likely they simply painted vases in one workshop. This workshop was one of the centers specializing in the production of lekifs in the style of painting on a white background, which style was most developed in the 5th century. BC e.
The vases painted by the artist have a large number of minor characters, usually in dynamic scenes. His early vases often feature horsemen, satyrs, and sirens. His characters usually do not stand on the line of the surface of the earth (as required by the traditional manner), but on top of two red lines drawn directly under the plot scene, or on a field covered with black varnish. Sometimes the characters stand on the meander, which goes on top of the black field. A characteristic feature of the artist are oval heads and an incised outline in the upper part of the beard.
Literature
- Beazley, JD (1956). Attic Black-figure Vase-painters (Oxford: Clarendon Press), pp. 522-524, 533, 704.
- Boardman, J. (1974). Athenian Black Figure Vases (London: Thames & Hudson), p. 113f, 147-149, figs. 250-255.
- John Boardman : Schwarzfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Ein Handbuch , Mainz 1977 (Kulturgeschichte der Antiken Welt, Vol. 1) ISBN 3-8053-0233-9 , p. 160.
- CH Emilie Haspels : Attic black-figured lekythoi , Paris 1936, p. 41-165. 254-262
- Matthias Steinhart: Apollon auf dem Schwan. Eine neue Lekythos des Athenamalers , In: Archäologischer Anzeiger (1993) p. 201-212.
- Thomas Mannack: Haspels addenda: additional references to CHE Haspels Attic black-figured Lekythoi . Oxford 2006. ISBN 0-19-726315-1 , p.