Analatos painter

Procession of two horses on a loutrophore in the Louvre, around 690 BC. Chr.

Fragment of a votive tablet with the oldest known gamalten inscription in Greek, around 700–675 BC. BC, found on Aegina, left to the National Archaeological Museum of Athens by Sir John Boardman

The Analatos Painter was an Attic vase painter of the early Protoattic style . His creative period, like that of his contemporary Mesogeia painter , is between about 700 and 675 BC. BC.

The name of the Analatos painter has not been passed down. It got its emergency name after the Attic area of Analatos (today Nea Smyrni ), where several of his works were found in archaeological excavations. His name vase is a hydria . He stands at the transition from the geometric to the early Protoattic style. He is considered a student of the late Geometric Stathatou painter . He executed the first works ascribed to him using the older technique. He showed an Egyptian-influenced prosthesis on a geometrically decorated hydria . This influence of the Orient was to be formative for the following Proto-Attic (the so-called orientalizing ) style, for which the artist is one of the main representatives. Characteristic of the new style were mythical animals, sphinxes in which faces and wings were left out, loosely moving men and women, cable patterns and rosettes. His oldest known amphora (now in Oxford ) is adorned in the abdominal zone by a series of spans - similar representations can be found, for example, on a loutrophore in the Louvre . The painter remains committed to the old style in many details. In addition to amphorae and hydration, he also decorated craters , bowls and lids. In addition to his work as a vase painter, he was possibly also a potter.

A votive tablet attributed to the painter is provided with remains of an inscription (ΣΟΝΟΣΈΓΙΣΤ, sonos epist ), which speaks for the painter's ability to write. It is also the oldest painted inscription in the Greek language known today.

literature

John Boardman : Early Greek Vase Painting. 11th to 6th Century BC. A Handbook , Thames and Hudson, London 1998 (World of Art), 89 ISBN 0-500-20309-1
Thomas Mannack : Greek vase painting. An introduction . Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, pp. 95f. ISBN 3-8062-1743-2 .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Analatos painter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Analatos painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Attic vase painter of the early Protoattic style
DATE OF BIRTH	8th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	7th century BC Chr.