Edinburgh painter

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Edinburg Painter's Name Vase, Edinburg, National Museums of Scotland 1956.436
White-ground lekythos by the Edinburgh painter, Paris, Louvre CA 545: Battle for Achilles' arms

The Edinburgh Painter was an Attic - black-figure vase painter , active c. 500 In Athens. The Edinburgh painter got his emergency name after the Lekythos in the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh .

His specialty were white-ground lekyths, which he painted with black figures. He was the first important vase painter to decorate large cylinder lecitha. Stylistically, he is a successor to the Leagros group . In addition to lekyths, he also decorates small neck amphoras and leek lids , but apart from one or two pieces assigned to him, no large shapes, as would later become the trademark of the Leagros group. Early in his career, he reduced the number of typical shoulder palmettes on the lekyths from seven to five. This makes it easy to identify. A more important innovation was the introduction of a white, thick background on the body of the vase. This replaces the usual red clay background. This makes him the developer of the Attic white-ground style. This now became binding for all painters of the white-ground style. Other vase shapes, such as oinochoes or small neck amphoras, were sometimes decorated in this way. The white reproduction of such details as woman's skin is no longer necessary, these areas are now made in black like the other details. He also did this for his work on clay-ground vessels. The Edinburgh painter's works are characterized by clear and simple structures and looseness. The large, round and rather expressionless eyes are typical. Sometimes he still succeeds in fine, detailed drawings, but he belongs to a later generation of black-figure artists, from whom special artistry can no longer be expected. His mythical images and genre scenes are characterized by a great variety. Only a few painters from his immediate contemporary environment came close to him here, such as the Gela painter , the Theseus painter and the Athena painter . The painter also painted some of the small neck amphorae , classified as part of the dot-tape class .

literature

  • Emilie Haspels : Attic black-figured lekythoi (= École française d'Athènes. Travaux et Mémoires. Volume 4). Boccard, Paris 1936, pp. 86-89. 215-221.
  • John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1956, pp. 476-480.
  • John D. Beazley: Paralipomena . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, pp. 217-221.
  • 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 , p. 159.
  • Vassilios Stoupas: The Edinburgh Painter. On the iconography and image composition of a late black-figure vase painter . Dissertation Münster 2003 ( PDF ).

Remarks

  1. ↑ Inventory number 1956.436.

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