Affecter

Pederastic scene, neck amphora, around 540/520 BC Chr.

The Affecter (also known as the affected painter ) was an Attic black-figure vase painter and potter, active around 550 to 530 BC. In Athens .

He got his emergency name after his graceful, 'affected' figure style, on the basis of which around 135 vessels can be ascribed to him to this day. The affecter was both a potter and a painter. His specialty were amphorae . He mainly painted egg-shaped amphorae and abdominal amphorae of the type C, which was new at the time .

Dionysus and Ikarios on an amphora found in Vulci , British Museum (GR 1836.2-24.46)

He was particularly interested in the decorative effect of his pictures of formulaic figures in long coats or with spread gestures, the narrative content was secondary. In this tendency towards formalism and in many details, the Affecter is a successor to the Amasis painter , whose artistic quality he lacks. Together with the Elbows-Out painter, he is counted among the black-figure mannerists .

His pictures seem a little like from an unreal world. The Affecter's figures usually have small heads and well-padded bodies when he depicts them clothed, but are quite angular and pointed when he painted them naked. He draws his ornaments very carefully. He also likes to decorate his robes with colored dots. Its plant ornaments are evidently closely linked to those of eastern Greek workshops such as those of the Clazomenic Group and the Northampton Group and speak for a lively cultural exchange between Attica and Ionian Greece during this period. What is special about his late amphorae is the replacement of the figures on the amphora necks with plant ornaments.

literature

John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters , Oxford 1956, pp. 238-248. 690-691.
Heide Mommsen : The Affecter , Mainz 1975.
John Boardman : Black-Figure Vases from Athens. A handbook (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 1). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9 , p. 73.
Heide Mommsen: Affecter. In: Der Neue Pauly Vol. 1, 1996, Col. 213.

Web links

Commons : Affecter - collection of images, videos and audio files

Brief biography of the Getty Museum

Individual evidence

↑ Boardman sets his creative phase in the time between 540 and 520 BC. Chr.

personal data
SURNAME	Affecter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Affecter; The affecter; The affecter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek potter and vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH	before 550 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	after 530 BC Chr.

[1] Boardman sets his creative phase in the time between 540 and 520 BC. Chr.