Euergides

Euergides ( ancient Greek Εὐεργίδης ) was a Greek potter who lived in the last quarter of the 6th century BC. BC in Athens mainly produced bowls.

At least twelve signatures from him have been preserved on red-figure bowls, all of which were decorated by the so-called Euergides painter . The large bowls of the Euergides were initially thick-walled and massive, but over time the wall thickness and the thickness of the base plate decreased, so that their shapes became lighter overall. Its small bowls had a solid and firm footplate and were of a rather compact shape. Almost all bowls of the Euergides show the foot type B with profiles formed in a uniform line. He is therefore to be regarded as younger than Hischylos , who was the first potter to change the base of the bowl towards a reduced base plate, and was apparently a contemporary of Kachrylion , to whom the invention of the type B bowl is ascribed.

literature

John D. Beazley : Attic Red-figure Vase-painters . Hacker Art Books, New York 1984, ISBN 0-87817-289-0 , p. 87 (reprint of the Oxford 1963 edition).
Takashi Seki : Yourgides . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 1: A-K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-598-11413-3 , pp. 223-224.

Web links

Euergides in Perseus (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Euergides
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Εὀεργίδης (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek potter
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.