Amasis painter

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Olpe des Amasis Painter, Paris, Louvre Inv. F 30

The Amasis Painter (also Amasismaler ;.. Active around 550-510 BC in Athens ) was a Greek vase painter of the black-figure style . It owes its emergency name to the fact that eight signed works produced by the potter Amasis (Amasis made me - made it) were painted by a painter who was then called the Amasis painter. Based on these works, around 90 works are ascribed to him today, of which more were certainly sculpted by Amasis the potter.

In his early works he continued the old traditions with excessively long figures with small heads and angular movements. In contrast to his predecessors, however, he soon succeeded in filling his own work with life and tension. He loosened the traditional forms and at the same time enriched them with new forms of composition. His figures become more and more full over time and are bursting with courage to live. The trigger for this change was most likely around 540 BC. Introduced red-figure vase painting with its new representation possibilities, from which he was obviously inspired. He took over the richer designs used by the young red-figure painters and transferred them, as far as possible, to his black-figure painting. In contrast to some of his younger contemporaries such as B. the Andokides painter , to whom he may have orientated himself, he continued to hold on to black-figure painting and did not change.

Works

  • Athens, Acropolis Museum:
    Pinax 2510
  • Berlin, Antikensammlung:
    Belly amphora F 1688 • Amphora F 1691 • Fragment of a belly amphora F 1692
  • Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum:
    Amphora 71.82
  • Boston, Museum of Arts:
    neck amphora 18.026 • amphora 01.8026 • amphora 01.8027 • bowl 10.651
  • London, British Museum:
    Olpe B 52 • Olpe B 471
  • Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum:
    Cup 79.AE.197
  • Munich, Glyptothek and Antikensammlung:
    Bauchamphora 1383 • Amphora 8763
  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art:
    abdominal amphora 06.1021.69 • amphora 56.171.10
  • Paris, Musée National du Louvre:
    Bowl Skyphos A 479 • Amphora F 25 • Amphora F 26 • Oinochoe F 30 • Amphora F 36 • Bowl F 75
  • Würzburg, Martin-von-Wagner-Museum:
    Amphora L 265

literature

  • John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters . Oxford 1956, pp. 150 ff., 698, 714.
  • John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters . Oxford 1971, pp. 62-67.
  • Dietrich von Bothmer : The Amasis Painter and his world. Vase-painting in 6th century BC Athens . J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California 1985, ISBN 0-500-23443-4 , ISBN 0-89236-086-0 .
  • Semni Karouzou: The Amasis painter . Oxford 1956.
  • Papers on the Amasis painter and his world. Colloquium sponsored by the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities and symposium sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum . J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California 1987, ISBN 0-89236-093-3 .

Web links

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