Dipylon master
The term Dipylon Master is an emergency name for a Greek sculptor, about whose person nothing is known apart from his works. He was at the beginning of the Attic marble sculpture, his works are around the time between 620 and 600 BC. Dated.
The name "Dipylon Master" is derived from the city gate Dipylon (double gate) in the area of the former pottery district Kerameikos in Athens . During excavations to document the gate on Good Friday 2002 , archaeologists found a monumental archaic youth figure ( Kouros of the Holy Gate ), which lay in a row with a sphinx , two marble lions and a fragment of a Doric capital .
The face of the monumental youth figure is better preserved than in all previously known works by the Dipylon master. These also include a 620 BC. This statue was created in the 4th century and is now in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. A head similar to the Kouros, found in 1916, raises the question of whether these two figures belonged together.
literature
- Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier : The Kuros from the Holy Gate. Surprising new finds of archaic sculpture in the Kerameikos in Athens . Zabern, Mainz 2002. ( Antike Welt , special issue; Zabern's illustrated books on archeology ) ISBN 3-8053-2956-3
Web links
- Another work by the Dipylon master: Sculpture discovery enriches the image of the archaic sculpture by Thomas Ribi, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Feuilleton, May 15, 2002, No. 110, page 62, online at kzu.ch (with illustration)
- Hardly discovered and already well interpreted: In the most beautiful suburb of antiquity: Wolf-Dietrich Niemeiers first theses on the Kuros from the Holy Gate , review by Michael Siebler, In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 21, 2003, No. 166, page 37, online on faz.net
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dipylon master |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Attic sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | uncertain: after 620 |