Eretria painter
The Eretria Painter is an anonymous painter of the Attic - red-figure style. He worked in the last quarter of the 5th century BC. The emergency name “Eretria painter” goes back to an epinetron ( name vase ) found in the city of Eretria .
The Eretria painter is considered a contemporary of the Shuvalov painter and the most interesting cup painter of his time, although he made some of his best work on oinochoes and bulbous lekyths . His pictures often show multi-figure scenes in which the groups of figures move across the entire surface. He also decorated vessels such as figure-shaped vases and head kantharoi . As unusual as his picture carriers may be, his subjects are commonplace: athletes, satyrs and maenads as well as mythological scenes. He also shows some careful studies with women. The Eretria painter also worked with a white background . A funeral scene appropriate to the white-ground painting is shown on a lekythos in New York: Achilles mourns Patroclus and the Nereids bring him new weapons. With his detailed and refined drawing style, he influenced numerous subsequent painters, namely the Meidias painter and his circle.
literature
- John D. Beazley : Attic red-figure vase-painters. 2nd edition, Oxford 1963, p.
- Adrienne Lezzi-Hafter : The Eretria Painter. Works and companions. Mainz 1988 ( Research on Ancient Ceramics Series II: Kerameus. Volume 6) ISBN 3-8053-0963-5
- John Boardman : Red-Figure Vases from Athens. The classical time (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 48). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1991, ISBN 3-8053-1262-8 , especially p. 102.
Web links
- Literature by and about Eretria painters in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eretria painter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek vase painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr. |