Bucci painter

Heracles drives Kerberus before him. The beast looks threatening, turns one head back and has raised its snake tail. Neck amphora, around 540 BC Chr. (False fire)

The Bucci Painter was a provisional names named Attic - black-figure vase painters. The works are dated to the last quarter of the 6th century BC. Dated.

The Bucci painter belongs to the circle of the Antimenes painter , but is closer to the older Andokides painter and his early works are even more important than the Antimenes painter. He decorates vase shapes similar to this one, amphorae and hydration . He is far less productive, but achieves a similarly high quality in his best works. Occasionally, the painters of the group show additional animal friezes on their neck amphorae, which are borrowed from the ornamentation schemes of the hydriai and are reminiscent of their predella . Sometimes he uses pillars to frame his pictures that he borrowed from the world of motifs of the Panathenaic price amphoras .

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.

Web links

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