Diosphus painter

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White-ground lekythos, Paris, Louvre MNB 911: Achilles and Ajax playing a board game

An Attic vase painter who worked in the black-figure style around 500 to 470/60 BC is called a Diosphos painter . Was active in Athens .

The Diosphos painter was a successor to the Edinburgh painter and fellow workshop of the Sappho painter . Although this was already dominant in his time, he did not work with the red-figure technique, but with the black-figure and above all with the white-ground technique. To do this, he occasionally used the new Six technology . He mainly decorated small lekyths . Among his better works are alabastra and small neck amphoras . Compared to other artists of his time and style such as the Sappho painter, he is an artist of poor quality. His artistic repertoire is also rather modest. His lively figures usually have quite large heads and appear quite lean. Despite everything, he can show powerful images on some lekyths. As time went on, the lekyths that the Diosphos painter decorated became increasingly slender.

Lekythos in half-outline technique, around 500/490 BC Chr. Paris, Louvre L 42: Eos and Memnon

Sometimes he shows figures between large palmettes , parts of his figures can also be shown in outline drawings, the body was painted as a silhouette, but the hair, clothes and objects as outline drawings (so-called semi-outline technique). In this "half-outline technique" he is influenced by red-figure painters at the same time, especially the Athena painter . Possibly he invented the decoration with two recessed stripes in the lower black-covered part of the vessel body of lekyths, which are often found in the Haimon painter.

literature

  • Emilie Haspels : Attic black-figured lekythoi (= École française d'Athènes. Travaux et Mémoires. Volume 4). Boccard, Paris 1936, pp. 94-130. 232-241.
  • John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1956, pp. 508-511. 702-703.
  • John D. Beazley: Paralipomena . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, pp. 248-250.
  • 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 , pp. 161f.
  • Sabine Weber: Sappho and Diosphos painter. Studies on the latest Attic black-figure ceramics . Dissertation Mainz 2000.

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personal data
SURNAME Diosphus painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Attic black-figure vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC Chr.