Bowdoin Eye Painter

Warriors on the tondo of a bowl in the antique collection of the Martin von Wagner Museum , around 510 BC. Chr.

The Bowdoin Eye Painter ( English Bowdoin Eye Painter ) was a Greek vase painter who worked towards the end of the 6th century BC. Chr. In Athens worked.

The Bowdoin Eye Painter was one of the early red-figure bowl painters who were active around the same time as the so-called " pioneer group " of the red-figure style. Like the other bowl painters, the Bowdoin-Augen-Painter also tested the possibilities of the new technique due to the comparatively smaller working surface of the bowls - the inside as well as the two outer sides - not to the same depth as the representatives of the pioneering group did, but they too did their part in the success of the new style. The Bowdoin eye painter mainly painted bilingual eye cups and palmette eye cups , with the tondi mostly decorated in red and the outside with black figures. The quality of his pictures cannot keep up with that of the best bowl painters of his time, but he compensates for his more fleeting style of painting with the particular liveliness of his figures. In his image content, too, he orients himself on the simultaneous works of even better artisans and draws above all athletes, warriors and comasts . Its name has not been passed down, which is why John D. Beazley made it distinguishable with an emergency name . He received this after his name vase , an eye bowl in the collection of Bowdoin College . He is not to be confused with the Bowdoin painter from the Athena / Bowdoin workshop to be appointed a few decades later .

literature

John Boardman : Red-Figure Vases from Athens. The archaic time (= cultural history of the ancient world . Volume 4). 4th edition. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-0234-7 , p. 66.
John D. Beazley : Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², number 167.

Web links

Commons : Bowdoin-Eye Painter - collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry in the Union List of Artist Names Online (English)

Individual evidence

↑ inventory number L469; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 167.10; Entry in the database of the Beazley Archive
↑ inventory number 1913.2, b; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 167.5; Entry in the database of the Beazley Archive

personal data
SURNAME	Bowdoin Eye Painter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bowdoin eye painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek vase painter of the red-figure style
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.

[1] ventory number L469; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 167.10; Entry in the database of the Beazley Archive

[2] ventory number 1913.2, b; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 167.5; Entry in the database of the Beazley Archive