Charops painter

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Name vase in the Danish National Museum: Heracles' fight with the lion

The Charops Painter was a Greek vase painter who worked in the late 6th or very early 5th century BC. Chr. In Athens worked.

The Charops painter , who was active around the same time as the so-called " pioneer group " of the red-figure style , was one of the earliest red-figure bowl painters . Like other bowl painters of this time, the Charops painter tested the possibilities of the new technology due to the comparatively smaller work surface - the inside and the two outside of the bowls - not yet to the same depth as the representatives of the pioneer group already did on larger vases, Nevertheless, the bowl painters also contributed to the success of the new style. He designed the inside pictures of his eye cups in the old black-figure style , the outside pictures red-figure.

John D. Beazley recognized the handwriting of the vase painter within the ten thousand-part inventory of well-known Attic red-figure vases and fragments and fundamentally compiled his works. Beazley ascribed only a few works to the painter, a total of only one bowl and one further fragment. He assigned him to the second department of the Coarser Wing , a group of poor quality vase painters. He got his emergency name from an inscription , a favorite name : ancient Greek ΚΑΛΟΣ ΧΑΡΟΦΣ , Kalos Charops , Charops is beautiful .

List of works

  1. "Chalcicup"; Danish National Museum , Copenhagen , inventory number CHRVIII458 (= 127); from Vulci ; Motif outside A: Heracles fights with the Nemean lion , observed by Athena , motif outside B: two maenads with a snake, Thyrsos , Kantharos and Krotala , motif inside: archer
  2. Shell fragment; National Archaeological Museum , Athens , inventory number 2.232 (= B110); Inside motif: young man (probably a craftsman) with pliers; originally as in the type of Epiktetos out

literature

Web links

Commons : Charops Painter  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², p. 138.1; Christian Blinkenberg and Knud Friis Johansen : Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Denmark: Copenhagen, Nationalmuseum 3, p. 108, plates: (138,139) 136.1A, 136.1B, 136.1C, 137.1A, 137.1B digitized ; Entry on the Beazley Archive website
  2. ↑ John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², p. 138.2; Entry on the Beazley Archive website
personal data
SURNAME Charops painter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Charops 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.