Paseas (vase painter)

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Paseas (oldgr .: Πασέας) was an Attic vase painter whose creative phase between 525 and 510 BC. Falls in the transition period from black-figure to red-figure vase painting . In addition to the Andokides painter and Psiax , he is considered to be the most important representative of the artists who demonstrated their mastery in both styles.

Theseus kills the Minotaur , Attic red-figure plate, around 520-510 BC Chr., Louvre (G 67)

He was initially known in research under the emergency name Kerberos painter before the name Paseas could be assigned to him on the basis of a signature . The name was given to a red-figure plate in Boston (01.7925), on which Heracles and Kerberos are depicted.

In the old, black-figure style, only white-ground consecration tablets ( pinakes ) are known today, which were found on the Acropolis . Athena can always be seen on them . A unique signature of the artist is affixed to one of these votive tablets: ΤΟΝ ΠΑΣΕΟ ΓΡΑΜΑΤΟΝ (one of the pictures of Paseas). In research, this is explained by the fact that Paseas may have applied for the prestigious commission to paint a Panathenaic amphora , but did not get the commission. No such amphora of Paseas is known today.

Paseas was of greater importance for the red-figure style that was probably newly developed by the Andokides painter. Especially between 520 and 510 BC. He made his works, of which bowls and plates in particular have been preserved. His drawings are typical of the bowl painters of his time. The figures are petite and often have quite large heads. The eyes are often very high and set far forward. His style is very reminiscent of Psiax. Like the Andokides painter, he is still experimenting with the old technique on a votive tablet in the red-figure style. So here the female figures get white faces according to old custom. The rest of the skin is left in the red shade of the clay.

A plate in the Oxford Ashmolean Museum shows a Kalos inscription for a Miltiades. A reference to the later Athenian strategist Miltiades , who was active in Thrace at the time, can probably be seen in the depicted archer in Scythian costume .

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SURNAME Paseas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kerberos painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 6th century BC Chr.