Meleager painter

Two athletes, tondo of a bowl, around 400/375 BC Chr.

The Meleager Painter is a painter of the Attic - red-figure style. He worked in the first third of the 4th century BC. Chr.

The Calydonian boar hunt : Atalante sits flanked by Meleager and possibly Tydeus , Nolan amphora , around 400/375 BC Chr.

The Meleager Painter is in the tradition of some painters who were settled somewhat earlier, such as the Mikion Painter . He is probably the most important vase painter of this generation. He painted a wide range of different vase shapes, even bowls , which was rather unusual for vase painters at the time. He got his emergency name from several vases on which he represented groups of hunters, including Atalante and her lover Meleager . He usually decorated the column and bell craters with Dionysian themes. Like some other vase painters of the time, he liked to depict figures in oriental clothingHe often surrounded the tondi of the interiors of his kylixes with wreaths. The themes of these interior images are mostly groups of gods or individual gods. The outside of the bowl and the back of other vases are usually of poor quality.

literature

John D. Beazley : Attic red-figure vase-painters . Oxford 1963.
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 , especially p. 176.

Web links

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

personal data
SURNAME	Meleager 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.