Borden Wood painter
The Borden Wood Painter , also known as the Lamb Painter , was an Attic who lived in the middle of the 5th century BC. Active vase painter of the red-figure style who is no longer known by name today . It got its emergency name from a bowl depicting an athlete in the former collection of the archaeologist Winifred Lamb in Borden Wood, which is now in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (Inv.-No .: GR 11.1955) . He is considered a later successor to the vase painter Duris. For stylistic and iconographic reasons, the painting of a number of other bowls is attributed to him.
Works
- Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum: Bowl 622 (Young Man with Strigilis - Athlete?)
- Athens, Agora Museum: Bowl P 19681 (athlete with throwing spear) [fragment]
- Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum: Bowl GR 11.1955 (athlete with javelin)
- Florence, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: bowl 78686 (boy with spear)
- London, British Museum: Bowl E 114 (Young Man at the Altar)
- Rome, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia: bowl (athlete with javelin) - bowl (athlete) [fragment]
literature
- Borden Wood painter . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 37 : Master with emergency names and monogramists . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1950, p. 52 .
- John D. Beazley : Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd edition, Oxford 1963, p. 788.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Object Detail (GR.11.1955, id: 6). University of Cambridge The Fitzwilliam Museum, 2012, accessed August 2, 2019 (UK English).
- ^ Vase E 114.British Museum, accessed August 2, 2019 (British English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Borden Wood painter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lamb painter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Attic vase painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr. |