Apollodoros (vase painter)

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A young, sacrificing athlete; Metropolitan Museum of Art

Apollodoros ( Greek Ἀπολλόδωρος ) was a Greek vase painter who worked towards the end of the 6th or early 5th century BC. Chr. In Athens worked.

Two naked women (toilet scene, possibly depilation ); Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Tarquinia

Apollodoros was one of the relatively early red-figure bowl painters . Depending on the date, his creative period goes to about the last decade of the 6th century BC. BC or the first two decades of the 5th century BC BC. Signatures are preserved on two bowls that have been handed down to us in fragments. His figures have quite characteristic features. The faces in particular are quite striking, such as the small, deep-set eyes and the long nose lines. In addition, some of his male figures have striking beards. The contours are flowing, almost delicately reproduced and the figures and their movements are adapted to the shape of the painted vessels.

Dyfri Williams considers it necessary to identify Apollodorus with the Epidromos Painter , the Elpinikos Painter and the Cleomelos Painter , whose works can easily be set earlier, but which have similar characteristics in their figures. Even John Boardman keeps this identification for at least possible. The curators of the J. Paul Getty Museum also plead for an identity of the four painters based on a bowl in their collection that bears the artistic signature of Apollo, but also the favorite inscription of Cleomelos . If this identification is not correct, there is still a strong resemblance to the works of the three vase painters who are designated by emergency names ; if it is correct, it is likely to be the early work of Apollodorus.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ inventory number 18.145.28; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 120.10; Entry in the Beazley Archive and in the Metropolitan Museum's online catalog
  2. ↑ inventory number RC87778; John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. Oxford 1971, 333.9BIS; Entry in the Beazley Archive
  3. ^ Louvre , inventory numbers G 139 and G 140; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 120.1, 1580; Entry on the website of the Beazley Archive (English) as well as fragments in the Herbert A. Cahn collection , Basel, inventory number HC 487 [formerly Castle Ashby , Northampton ] and Villa Giulia , Rome ; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 120.4, 1580; Entry on the website of the Beazley Archive (English)
  4. ^ Apollodoros (Greek (Attic), active about 500 BC) (Getty Museum). Retrieved April 12, 2020 (English).


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SURNAME Apollodorus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ἀπολλόδωρος (ancient Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek vase painter of the red-figure style
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.