Elpinikos painter

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Theseus defeats Sinis, inscription: Elpinikios kalos , Elpinikios is beautiful ; State collections of antiquities

The Elpinikos Painter was a Greek vase painter who worked towards the end of the 6th century BC. Chr. In Athens worked.

The Elpinikos painter was one of the relatively early red-figure bowl painters . His creative period is around the last decade of the 6th century BC. BC. He is considered a secondary vase painter. Its name has not been passed down, which is why John D. Beazley , who recognized and defined his artistic handwriting within the large body of ancient painted ceramics, has made it distinguishable with an emergency name . He received this after his preference for the favorite name Elpinikos, which was used several times on his vases . His tondi (interior images) are often rather unusual. So he draws a tree (a spruce ) on a tondo with Theseus on the right and Sinis on the left . Theseus draws the notorious mugger and murderer to him in order to inflict the same death on him as this inflicts the same death on his victims by tearing him to pieces from the branches of the tree. In another interior picture he shows a profile head of the moon on a clay-ground disk.

Dyfri Williams considers an identification with Apollodorus , whose works show similar characteristics in his figures, necessary. Even John Boardman keeps this identification for at least possible. The curators of the J. Paul Getty Museum also plead for an identity of the two painters based on a bowl in their collection that bears the artistic signature of Apollodorus, but also Elpiniko's favorite inscription . If this identification is not correct, there remains a strong similarity with the works of Apollodorus as well as with those of the Cleomelos Painter and the Epidromus Painter , which Williams would also like to identify with Apollodorus.

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Commons : Elpinikos Painter  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Entry in the Union List of Artist Names Online (English)

Remarks

  1. ↑ inventory number 8771; Elke Böhr : Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Germany 98, Munich 18. CH Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-67748-9 , 143-145, FIGS. 87-88, INSERT 17.2, PLS. (4901, 4903) 82.1-6, 84.23; Entry on the website of the Beazley Archive (English)
  2. ^ Apollodoros (Greek (Attic), active about 500 BC) (Getty Museum). Retrieved April 12, 2020 (English).


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SURNAME Elpinikos painter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elpinikos painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek vase painter of the red-figure style
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.