Euergides painter
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The Euergides Painter was a Greek vase painter who worked towards the end of the 6th century BC. Chr. In Athens worked.
The Euergides Painter was one of the relatively early red-figure bowl painters . His creative period dates from around 515 to 500 BC. BC. He is considered a secondary vase painter, but was quite productive; around 150 vases and vase fragments are assigned to him today. 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 several named vases , all of which were signed by the potter Euergides . He has also worked for at least one other potter, Chelis , and possibly for other potters.
The Euergides painter decorated his vases mainly with genre pictures: scenes from sports, pictures of horses and teams as well as comos and symposium scenes . There were also mythological images from the legendary circles of Herakles , Theseus , Peleus and Thetis, as well as the scene that Exekias introduced into vase painting and has not been handed down in literary terms, which shows Achilles and Ajax playing a board game . Both spheres are connected by images with Dionysian content. He places mythical creatures like griffins , sphinxes and pegasi next to the bowl handles . In choosing his subjects, he was reminiscent of the master Epictetus , with whom he had also decorated two common bowls. While Epictetus painted the black-figure tondi , the inside of the bowl, the Euergides painter decorated the outside. In addition, both of them often use the name Hipparchus as their favorite name .
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Two semi-cylindrical stands in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, probably painted by the Euergides painter or a painter close to him: left 1980.537, right 65.11.14
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The Euergides painter has decorated several particularly striking works. This may include a bowl that was found as an offering on the Acropolis of Athens . On it the figures - men and horses - were carved out as clay relief, the details kept in red-figure technique. His involvement in two unusual semi-cylindrical stands, which imitate Etruscan models and were probably created by the Sikanis potter , is uncertain, they are assigned to at least one artist working in the manner of the Euergides painter. Craftsmanship is shown by a bowl that shows a potter on the left and a metalworker at work on the right , next to an Athena enthroned . This bowl, which has only been preserved in fragments, is generally regarded as the best work of the Euergides painter. It is also an indication that the workshops of the Kerameikos of Athens might not have to be limited to one handicraft branch, especially since potters and metal workers sometimes needed the same infrastructure and therefore worked next to each other in the pottery district.
Within the group of early red-figure vase painters, the Euergides Painter is one of the later ones, unless the works attributed to the Delos Painter are, as some scholars believe, in fact the Euergides Painter's early work . Unlike the Delos painter and other vase painters such as the Bowdoin eye painter or the Scheurleer painter , he did not paint his bowls bilingually and he also did not paint eye bowls . The quality of his vases cannot be compared with that of the best vase painters of the time, and the quality of his work fluctuates considerably. Some of his pictures look like skilfully executed copies of the works of better painters, other pictures - especially the genre themes - are often careful replicas. His drawings are often careless, so the body contours of the preliminary drawings often shine through the robes, and details such as ears or hands that have apparently been forgotten are often missing. A similar imitator of Epictetus was the artistically somewhat weaker Epeleios painter .
The Euergides painter used inscriptions several times , in addition to favorite inscriptions , sometimes also rather unusual verbal contributions. On a vase he writes paidikos , for example , in the context of the vase it doesn't mean childish , but boyish . The interpretation of the Paidikos as a potter is controversial. On another vase he greets with prosagoreup - I greet [you] . These inscriptions put him in a context with the group of Paidikos-Alabastra , on which such inscriptions can be found and several of which were painted by a painter who comes very close to the Euergides painter, but was of better quality, who was painted after the potter of alabastra , Pasiades , Pasiades painter is called. With this and other vases, a circle or a school of the Euergides painter was also defined, in which works from the vase painter's environment are collected.
literature
- Hansjörg Bloesch : Forms of Attic bowls from Exekias to the end of the strict style , Benteli, Bern 1940, pp. 51–53.
- John D. Beazley : Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², pp. 87-106.
- John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters. 2nd edition, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, pp. 330, 509.
- Beth Cohen : Attic Bilingual Vases and their Painters. New York 1978. ISBN 0-8240-3220-9 , pp. 437-438.
- John Boardman : Red-Figure Vases from Athens. The archaic time (= cultural history of the ancient world . Volume 4). 4th edition. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-0234-7 , pp. 63, 68-69.
- Martin Robertson : The Art of Vase-painting in Classical Athens. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992, ISBN 0-521-33010-6 , pp. 38, 52-57, 268.
- Rolf Hurschmann : Euergides painter. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 , column 230 f.
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ among other things British Museum , inventory number 1920.6-13.1; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 88.1, 1625; Entry on the website of the Beazley Archive and Museum of Antiquities at the University of Leipzig , inventory number T3372; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 89.23; Entry on the Beazley Archive website
- ^ Louvre , inventory number G 15; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 91.51; Entry on the Beazley Archive website
- ^ Louvre, inventory number G 16; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 1584.1; Entry at the Beazley Archives and National Archaeological Museum, Naples ; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 73.29, 97.2, 102.4, 103.3, 1584.6; Inventory number H 2609; Entry in the Beazley Archive
- ^ National Archaeological Museum, Athens, inventory number Akr. 102; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 1625; Entry in the Beazley Archive
- ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art, inventory number 1980.537 and 65.11.14; Entry in the Beazley Archive and the Metropolitan Museum's online catalog for 1980.537 as well as the Beazley Archive and the MET's catalog for November 65, 2014
- ^ National Archaeological Museum, Athens, inventory number Akr. 166; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 92.64
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| SURNAME | Euergides painter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Euergidespainter |
| 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. |