Ore foundry painter
The ore foundry painter , also Foundry Painter , was an Attic - red-figure vase painter of the late Archaic , who in the first third of the 5th century BC. Worked. He mainly painted drinking bowls. He performed some of his works in the white-ground style . The designation is an emergency name .
The ore foundry painter worked alongside a few other vase painters worth mentioning such as the Briseis painter and the Dokimasia painter in the workshop of one of the most important representatives of late Archaic red-figure vase painting, the Brygos painter . He was less productive than his master, but artistically he was hardly inferior to him. In his thematic repertoire and in his style he was in the tradition of the Brygos painter, who apparently had a great influence on his employees. His style still differs in certain details, so his work was judged by John D. Beazley as powerful and sometimes even brutal.
The figures appear heavier in construction, the faces mostly more sketchy. His characters are well observed and often shown not without humor. Among them you will find stupid lovers, buxom hetaerae , dismayed libertines. He also shows attempts to depict body hair and particularly emphasize muscles. As one of the few late Archaic vase painters, he also tried to work with shading.
The symposium pictures in particular are directly related to the work of the Brygos painter, even if he brings his own points of view, especially in the details. His mythical scenes are also often called original. But his pictures from everyday life are of particular importance. There is a bowl on which he shows a sculptor at work, supervised by the goddess Athena .
His most famous work is his name vase from the Berlin Collection of Antiquities . Here he depicts a bronze workshop on the outside of a kylix . This ore foundry shell is one of the few testimonies to ancient metalworking.
literature
- John D. Beazley : Attic red-figure vase-painters . Oxford 1963.
- 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 , especially p. 151.
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| SURNAME | Ore foundry painter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Foundry 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. |