Athena / Bowdoin workshop

Pegasus on a red-figure belly lecthosis by the Bowdoin painter; around 480/60 BC BC, found in Sicily, today in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen in Munich

The Athena / Bowdoin workshop was one of the leading production facilities for small fine ceramics in ancient Athens in the first half of the 5th century BC. Chr.

Leading artists of the workshop were the blackfigure working Athena Painter and redfigure working Bowdoin painter . Both painters also worked with white backgrounds . Some researchers assume that this is the same artist. However, this can also be a simple workshop connection between the two painters. The workshop was one of the production centers in which the painting of lekyths in the white-ground style was promoted, which began in the 5th century BC. Should be of particular importance. Many black covered lekyths and many oinochoes of different quality come from the workshop .

At the time of the Athena Painter, the Rhodes Painter worked in the workshop in 13472 .

Web links

Commons : Athena / Bowdoin workshop  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Emilie Haspels : Attic black-figured lekythoi. Paris 1936, pp. 41-165, 254-262.
• John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1956, pp. 522-524.
• John Boardman : Black-Figure Vases from Athens. A handbook (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 1). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9 , p. 160.