Athena painter

Warrior with shield and spear in a hail of arrows, white-ground lekythos with black-figure painting, around 575/50 BC BC, Paris, Cabinet des médailles

The Athena painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active around 490 to 460 BC. In Athens. His specialty were white-ground lekyths , which he painted with black figures.

The Athena Painter, like the Theseus Painter, continued painting the great standard lecytes in the tradition of the Edinburgh painter . He added several small changes that were to become canonical after him, such as tendrils with closed buds on the shoulder palmettes or with some of his vessels he covered the vessel necks black. He provided the vertical stripes over the shoulder, former, now degenerate tongue patterns, with border lines and also decorated the base line. His black-figure work was of high quality. In addition to lekyths, he mainly decorated oinochoes . Most archaeologists equate the Athena painter with the red-figure Bowdoin painter . In his best work, his characters have the dignity that distinguished the characters of the Leagros group . Most of the time, however, he paints rather simply. His figures appear lively, but mostly have light "egg heads". He got his emergency name because of his preference for pictures with Athena representations. Its thematic repertoire is characterized by variety and richness.

literature

CH 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.
Matthias Steinhart : Apollo on the swan. A new lekythos of the athena painter , In: Archäologischer Anzeiger (1993) pp. 201–212.
Thomas Mannack : Haspels addenda: additional references to CHE Haspels Attic black-figured Lekythoi . Oxford 2006. ISBN 0-19-726315-1 , pp.

Web links

Commons : Athena Painter - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Vases of the Athena Painter in Perseus

personal data
SURNAME	Athena painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Attic black-figure vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	5th century BC Chr.