Cesnola painter

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The Cesnola Crater, New York, Metropolitan Museum.

Cesnola painter is the emergency name of an anonymous Euboean vase painter of the late Geometric period . His works are dated from around 750 to 740 BC. Dated.

The Cesnola painter got its name after Luigi Palma di Cesnola , whose collection gathered in Cyprus originally included a crater painted by the Cesnola painter. It has been in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since 1874 (inventory number 74.51.965). The Cesnola crater found in Cyprus is quite unusual in shape and design and has long given rise to speculations about the origin of the artist and work. Thanks to new finds and sound analyzes, the origin from Euboea has now been secured. The painter's works are assigned to the Euboean LG I phase (= Euboean Late Geometric I ).

In his work, the Cesnola painter combines influences from the Near East with traditions from the Greek motherland and island Greek styles. John Boardman postulated strong Naxos influences in particular . He mainly decorated craters and jugs that were found on or in Cyprus, Delos , Samos , Eretria , Lefkandi and Al Mina , among others . His robust style brought several innovations, such as the depiction of goats on trees, connected blobs or hand-painted concentric circles.

literature

  • John Nicolas Coldstream : The Cesnola-Painter. A change of address. In: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 18, 1971, pp. 1-15 ( digitized version ).
  • Nota Kourou: Euboea and Naxos in the Late Geometric Period. The Cesnola Style. In: Michel Bats, Bruno d'Agostino (ed.): Euboica. L'Eubea e la presenza Euboica in Calcidica e in Occidente. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Napoli 13-16 November 1996 (= AION. Annali del Seminario di Studi del Mondo Classico. Sezione di Archeologia e Storia antica , Volume 12). Naples 1998, pp. 167-178 ( digitized version )
  • Rolf Hurschmann : Cesnola painter. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp. 1075 f.
  • John Boardman : Early Greek Vase Painting. 11th - 6th Century BC. A Handbook (= World of Art ). Thames and Hudson, London 1998, ISBN 0-500-20309-1 , p. 28.

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personal data
SURNAME Cesnola painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Euboean vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 8th century BC Chr.