Dokimasia painter

Image on a kylix ascribed to the Dokimasia painter : a man with a lyre

Dokimasia painter is the emergency name of an Attic red-figure vase painter who lived around 485–465 BC. Was active.

The Dokimasia Painter was a young member of a workshop that painted bowls by the potter Brygos . John D. Beazley gave it the emergency name after a name vase on which the horses of Ephebe are examined ( Dokimasia ). Although he seemed to specialize in painting bowls, paintings on other vase shapes were ascribed to him as a later work, namely stamnoi , chalice craters and kalathoi . In addition to Dokimasia, his subjects were Hoplitodromos , Symposion , Komos or teaching scenes, and he also painted scenes from Greek mythology , for example from the legends of the heroes Heracles and Theseus or the singer Orpheus .

literature

John D. Beazley : Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd edition, Oxford 1963, pp. 412-414.
John Boardman : Red-Figure Vases from Athens. The archaic time (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 4). 4th edition. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-0234-7 , p. 137.
Adrienne Lezzi-Hafter : Dokimasia Painter. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 3, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01473-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Dokimasia painter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dokimasia Painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	5th century BC Chr.