Dinos painter

Aktaion , Tydeus , Theseus and Castor as mythological hunters on a bell crater , around 420 BC Chr.

The dinosaur painter is a painter of the Attic - red-figure style. He worked around the second half of the 5th century BC. Chr.

The dinosaur painter is in the tradition of the Kleophon painter , but appears less serious. It stands at the transition between high and late classic . With him, the Attic vase painters began to take a new interest in epic scenes. One or a few figures are at the center of an event, not the course of an event is shown in the form of a frieze. His drawings introduce the lush style of the next generation, he is also increasingly using opaque white to bring out details. The use of opaque white for eros and furniture is a novelty of the dinosaur painter; it should be part of the general repertoire of the following generations of painters.

literature

John D. Beazley : Attic red-figure vase-painters . Oxford 1963.
John Boardman : Red-Figure Vases from Athens. The classical time (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 48). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1991, ISBN 3-8053-1262-8 , especially pp. 67 and 100.

Web links

Commons : Dinos-Maler - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Dinos painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH	5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr.