Marsyas painter

Panathenaic Prize Amphora, Malibu J. Paul Getty Museum

The Marsyas Painter was a vase painter of the Attic - red-figure style. His works are dated between 370 and 340/30 BC. Dated.

The Marsyas Painter is perhaps the best painter of Attic red-figure vase painting of the 2nd half of the 4th century BC. In the so-called Kerch style . It got its emergency name from the depiction of Marsyas on a pelike , which is now in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg . Currently 13 red-figure works are attributed to him. These include, above all, larger vessels such as Lebetes gamikoi , Peliken, Hydria and Lekaniden . Only a few years ago the Marsyas painter was assigned ten Panathenaic price amphoras , which allows a new assessment.

The Marsyas painter depicts themes from the world of women and everyday scenes as well as mythological motifs. He paints harmonious yet monumental figures, his brushwork shows security. He is a master of spatial representation and plays with foreshortening and contraction, which creates statuary effects. Fabrics and garments are detailed and voluminous. His masterpiece is a Lebes gamikos in the Hermitage that was found in Kerch . Here he shows the epaúlia , the festival of the newlywed wife. On a pelike with Peleus and Thetis , he shows what is perhaps the best female nude study in Greek vase painting. He often uses additional colors such as white and gold, but cautiously. By Panos Valavanis he received the Eleusinian painter equated.

literature

John D. Beazley : Attic red-figure vase-painters . 2nd Edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1963, pp. 1474-1475.
John Boardman : Red-Figure Vases from Athens. The classical time (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 48). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1991, ISBN 3-8053-1262-8 , pp. 199f.
Martin Robertson : The Art of Vase-painting in Classical Athens . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992, ISBN 0-521-33010-6 , pp. 280-283.
Stella Drougou: Marsyas Painter. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 7, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01477-0 , Sp. 956 f.

Web links

Commons : Marsyas Painter - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Works by the Marsyas painter at Perseus

Remarks

↑ Inventory number Кек.-8 .
↑ Panos Valavanis: Παναθηναϊκοί αμφορείς από την Ερέτρια . Athens 1991, ISBN 960-7036-10-7 ; Martin Robertson: The Art of Vase-painting in Classical Athens . Cambridge 1992, ISBN 0-521-33010-6 , pp. 282-283; Martin Robertson: Thoughts on the Marsyas Painter and his Panathenaics . In: Periplous. Papers on classical art and archeology presented to Sir John Boardman . London 2000, ISBN 0-500-05097-X , p. 244.
↑ Inventory number П.1906-175 .
^ London, British Museum inventory number E 424 .

personal data
SURNAME	Marsyas painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH	4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	4th century BC BC or 3rd century BC Chr.

[1] Inventory number Кек.-8 .

[2] Panos Valavanis: Παναθηναϊκοί αμφορείς από την Ερέτρια . Athens 1991, ISBN 960-7036-10-7 ; Martin Robertson: The Art of Vase-painting in Classical Athens . Cambridge 1992, ISBN 0-521-33010-6 , pp. 282-283; Martin Robertson: Thoughts on the Marsyas Painter and his Panathenaics . In: Periplous. Papers on classical art and archeology presented to Sir John Boardman . London 2000, ISBN 0-500-05097-X , p. 244.

[3] Inventory number П.1906-175 .

[4] London, British Museum inventory number E 424 .