C painter

Siana inside of a shell: a kneeling warrior with drawn sword - possibly the Troilus seismogram Achill , v. 560 Chr.

The C Painter was one of the most important Attic - black-figure vase painters. His works are dated between 575 and 555 BC. Dated.

The C-painter got his emergency name from the archaeologist John D. Beazley . The C stands for Corinthianising , korinthisierend . He is the successor to the Komasten group and still paints some older vessel shapes that this group also used, including Lekanen , Dreifusskothone and Skyphoi . Other vessels, such as lekytha with pronounced shoulders, no longer belong to the earlier typical lekytha form of the "Deianeira" type, although the type still existed in other workshops at the same time. The C-Painter was the first Attic painter to paint bowls without a raised lip, the button-handle bowl .

The birth of Athena , Exaleiptron , around 570/60 BC Chr.

As his emergency name suggests, the C-painter orientated himself on Corinthian models. He painted warriors in single combat, riders, symposiasts and comasts . He used opaque white for details, as was customary in Corinthian painting, but used the Attic technique for this: the color was applied to the black paint and not reproduced in outline drawings. With his mythological images, however, he already stood out from the Corinthian models. He showed them in longer friezes that are reminiscent of pictures by the Gorgon Painter or Kleitias . He drew his figures carefully, often with a somewhat large head. They seem quite powerful. A special characteristic of his pictures are animal heads, which he paints as shield signs.

His achievements as a Siana bowl painter are particularly significant . He is considered to be the earliest, best and therefore most important painter of this type of vase. Probably towards the end of his career, bowls were produced in his workshop that are reminiscent of later peripheral bowls . The lid of a Lekanis , which is now in Naples, is considered the highest quality work . It is the earliest representation showing the death of Astyanax . The remainder of an inscription can be found on one of the painter's vases : … eiron epoie . It is therefore obvious that the painter was called Cheiron or Pheiron.

literature

• John D. Beazley : Attic Black-figure Vase-painters . Oxford 1956, p.
• John Boardman : Black-Figure Vases from Athens. A handbook (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 1). 4th edition. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9 , p. 35f.
• Thomas Mannack : Greek vase painting. An introduction . Theiss, Stuttgart 2002 ISBN 3-8062-1743-2 , p. 109f.

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