Amykos painter

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Amykos bound; Named vase by the Amykos painter in the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris
Women give gifts to young men, Amykos Painter, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Amykos-Maler is the emergency name for the most important vase painter of the early Lower Italian red-figure style . Around 250 vases are attributed to the hand of the painter who is not known by name. Possibly he was a student of the Pisticci painter , in whose workshop he probably worked. For his part, he is regarded as the teacher of the Brooklyn-Budapest painter and the Dolon painter , who embody the next generation of the workshop. The Pisticci painter, possibly trained in Athens himself , is considered to be the founder of Lucanian vase painting , which was based on the Attic vase painting of Athens.

The creative period of the Amykos painter, like that of the Pisticci painter, can be traced back to the years 430 to 400 BC. To be dated. He seems to have worked in Metapont , which is suggested by finds of at least three vessels - an amphora and two hydrates - from his hand in the Kerameikos, the pottery district of Metapont. He mainly painted craters , hydrias, pelics and amphorae, as well as choen and skyphoi . But he also painted other forms of vessels , such as various nestorids . Mythological scenes such as the depiction of Amykos (on a vase in or the suicide of the Kanaks ) are rather rare in his repertoire. He often painted Silenians and Maenads , genre scenes with warriors, women or young men, and athletes accompanied by veiled women.

Remarks

  1. ^ Arthur D. Trendall: The Red-figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily. Third Supplement (Consolidated). London 1983, p. 1.

literature

  • Arthur D. Trendall : The Red-figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily. Third Supplement (Consolidated). University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, London 1983, pp. 1, 11-19.
  • Arthur D. Trendall: Red Figure Vases of South Italy and Sicily. A handbook. Thames and Hudson, London 1989, pp. 20-21.
  • Martine Denoyelle : Hands at Work in Magna Graecia: The Amykos Painter and His Workshop. In: Thomas H. Carpenter et al. (Ed.): The Italic People of Ancient Apulia. New Evidence from Pottery for Workshops, Markets, and Customs. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014, ISBN 978-1-107-04186-8 , pp. 116-129 ( digitized ).

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personal data
SURNAME Amykos painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Red-figure vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century or 4th century BC Chr.