Achilles painter

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Servant brings the child to the deceased mother, white-ground lekythos by the Achilles painter, around 450 BC. Chr.

The Achilles painter is a painter of the Attic - red-figure style. He was active in a period between 460 and 430 BC. Chr.

The Achilles painter is considered a student and successor to the Berlin painter in his workshop. Like his teacher, he has a particular preference for large black vases on which he only shows individual figures or pairs of figures. So he paints studies of gods and niks , persecution and farewell scenes. He is less interested in larger groups or even told stories. Mostly he paints abdominal amphorae , which are no longer up to date at this time, or Nolan amphorae . He paints small, vignette-like miniatures on some black stamnoi . His style goes very well with the increasingly popular bulbous lekyths , which are generally only decorated with head or bust images. If he paints larger vases with several figures, these remain on the stand line and are not offset in perspective. He may also have painted Panathenaic price amphoras .

Red misfire of a Nolan amphora, around 450 BC Chr.

He makes many of his best works on white-ground lekyths. Sometimes he also uses the grave themes associated with white-ground painting in red-figure pictures. In the white-ground works, he applies the outline drawings with gloss paint and uses additional white ("second white") for the women's skin. Despite the sepulkral purpose of the vases, only a few references to this theme show. Mostly domestic themes such as mistress and maid or departing warriors are shown. Except for the depiction of the muses on a vase, all depictions seem appropriate to the funeral cult and almost all of the white-ground works by the Achilles painter were found in graves. Kalos names of his early vases are Kleinias and Lichas , Diphilos and Dromippos on white-ground works , Euaion and Axiopeithes on later works . The Kalos names on the white-ground vases raise doubts as to their determination as grave vases, since such inscriptions probably did not fit the grave cult. The Phiale painter is considered to be a pupil of the Achilles painter, other painters such as the dwarf painter and the Persephone painter are seen in his tradition. John Boardman describes the Achilles Painter as "the most important artist of the Classical period" (in relation to Attic red-figure vase painting). It got its emergency name from the depiction of Achilles on an amphora from Vulci in the Vatican Museums .

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Web links

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

supporting documents

  1. ^ In Boardman: Red-Figure Vases from Athens. Classical Time , p. 143.
personal data
SURNAME Achilles painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: before 460 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: after 430 BC Chr.