Camtar painter

The name Camtar painter is an emergency name given to an ancient vase painter of the black-figure style from Athens in the middle third of the sixth century BC. Was given.

The Camtar painter got his emergency name from the vases now in Cambridge and Tarquinia . Like other painters of his time, such as the Ptoon painter , he appears more old-fashioned than he really was due to the animal friezes and plant ornaments linked by tendrils. The oval neck amphoras, which are preferably painted, are decorated with continuous friezes instead of picture fields according to the old model. On the lip he even depicts rows of rosettes that were actually no longer in use for this time . He also used decorative ribbons that most of his contemporaries no longer used. However, he depicts these lines running over the lotus flowers in a circular manner and not in waves, as usual.

His figures appear sturdy and archaic, coarse, coarse and wooden. One of his special peculiarities is that he does not use black writing on his figures, but red, which is only known from a few other artists, such as Sophilos and the painter from London B 76 . The Camtar painter prefers to depict mythological scenes, including the arming Achilles .

literature

• John D. Beazley : Attic Black-figure Vase-painters . Oxford 1956, p. 84.
• 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. 39f.