Amasis (potter)

Olpe des Amasis, Paris, Louvre F 30

Signature of Amasis on an Olpe, 550-530 BC BC, Paris, Louvre F 30

Bowl painted by the Amasis painter and pottered by Amasis, 550–540 BC Chr., Paris, Louvre F 75

Amasis was a potter who lived between 560/50 and 530/20 BC. Was active in Athens .

A well-known painter, named after the potter as the Amasis painter and known as one of the best archaic vase painters , also worked in the Amasis pottery workshop . His works are mostly black-figure, later also red-figure. He and Exekias also created the first significant picture field amphoras , each of which has a narrative image on both sides.

Famous works:

• Image field amphora: satyrs during the grape harvest ( Würzburg , antique collection of the Martin von Wagner Museum )
• Image field amphora: Dionysus with Kantharos and young men with hunted hares and foxes ( Munich , State Collections of Antiquities )

literature

• John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters , Oxford 1956
• Dietrich von Bothmer : The Amasis Painter and his world. Vase-painting in 6th century BC Athens . Malibu, Calif., J. Paul Getty Museum 1985. ISBN 0-500-23443-4 , ISBN 0-89236-086-0
• 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. Malibu, Calif., J. Paul Getty Museum 1987. ISBN 0-89236-093-3
• Hans Peter Isler: The potter Amasis and the Amasis painter. Comments on chronology and person , in: Yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute 109 (1994) pp. 93–114.
• Georg Loeschcke : Amasis 5) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 1748 f.
• Heide Mommsen : Αμασις μεποιεσεν. Observations on the potter Amasis , In: Athenian potters and painters. The conference proceedings (Oxford 1997) pp. 17–34.

Web links

• "Metropolitan Museum of Art" works by the Amasis painter