Eye sirens group
The Eye sirens group is one with a provisional names named group Attic - black-figure vase painters. Their works are dated to the last quarter of the 6th century BC. Dated.
The eye-siren group belongs to the circle of the Antimenes painter . She decorates vase shapes similar to this one, amphorae and hydration . The group is far less productive, but achieves a similarly high quality in its best plants. The eponymous vase, a neck amphora , shows Peleus wrestling with Thetis , flanked by two eyes that are part of two sirens . The motif is reminiscent of a vase by the Amasis painter . Occasionally the painters of the group show additional animal friezes on their neck amphorae, which are borrowed from the decorations of the hydriai and which are reminiscent of their predella .
literature
- 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. 120.
