Asteas

Phlyak vase , representation of a theater scene on a chalice crater (Antikensammlung Berlin F 3044)

Asteas (active between 350 and 320 BC in Paestum ) was a Greek vase painter who worked in southern Italy and one of the main exponents of Paestan vase painting . He was in charge of a large workshop in which mainly hydrates and craters were painted. He mainly painted mythological and theater scenes. He was one of the few vase painters who were known by name and who worked in ancient Italy.

Selected Works

• Antikensammlung Berlin

Cup crater F 3044

• Kassel, State Museums

Skyphos T821

• formerly Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum

Chalice crater 81.AE.78 (returned to Italy as a find from a robbery excavation in 2006)

Lekythos 96.AE.119 (returned to Italy as a find from a robbery excavation in 2006)

• Paris, Musee National du Louvre

Lekanis K 570

• Tampa, Tampa Museum of Art

Hydria 89.98

literature

• Arthur D. Trendall : The red-figured vases of Paestum . British School at Rome, Rome 1987
• Erika Simon : A new signed calyx krater of Asteas. In: Numismatica e antichità classiche. Quaderni ticinesi. Volume 31, 2002, pp. 115-127.
• Erika Simon: The Paestan painter Asteas. In: Greek vases. Images, contexts and controversies. Proceedings of the conference sponsored by the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia University, March 23-24, 2002. Brill, Leiden 2004, pp. 113-122.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berlin F 3044 (vase) . Perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
2. ↑ Malibu 81.AE.78 (vase) . Perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
3. ^ Oil Jar with the Garden of the Hesperides . getty.edu. Archived from the original on September 20, 2006. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
4. ^ Louvre K 570 (vase) . Perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
5. ↑ Tampa 89.98 (vase) . Perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved December 12, 2010.

Web links

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

• Short biography from the Getty Museum ( Memento from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Carl Robert : Asteas 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Col. 1779.