Damon painter

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Belly of a hydria by the Damon Painter in the Louvre in Paris: Lamentation of the dead Achilles

Damon painter is the notname a spätkorinthisch - schwarzfigurigen vases painter, which is about 575 v until after the 550th Was active.

The Damon Painter painted exclusively hydriai on which he carefully crafted battle scenes with car steering hoplites or scenes from mythology represented. Panthers are depicted under the handles of the vessels. His paintings are characterized by the effective use of polychrome elements.

The Damon painter is named after his name vase in the Louvre in Paris , on which a hoplite is shown climbing a carriage. The charioteer is inscribed with the name Damon .

By Darrell A. Amyx are attributed to him three hydriai sure of which there are two in the Louvre and the National Archaeological Museum in Taranto . A fourth in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore is stylistically located near it. Humfry Payne viewed the style of the two vases owned by the Louvre as an evolution of the style of the amphiaraoh painter .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Inventory number E 643
  2. ↑ Inventory number E 642
  3. ↑ Inventory number 52846
  4. ↑ Inventory number 48.2230
  5. ↑ Humfry Payne: Necrocorinthia. A study of Corinthian art in the archaic period . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1931, p. 111.
personal data
SURNAME Damon painter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Damon Painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Corinthian vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH 7th century BC BC or 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 6th century BC Chr.