Gales painter

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The Gales Painter was a Greek vase painter who worked in the last third of the 6th century BC. Chr. In Athens worked.

The Gales painter is a representative of the " pioneer group " of red-figure vase painting . Since only very few vases are assigned to him, he has not achieved the significance of other representatives of the group such as Euphronios , Euthymides or Phintias . John D. Beazley recognized the individual style of the artisan among the tens of thousands of preserved vases and shards of the red-figure Attic style and summarized his works. It got its emergency name after the potter Gales , whose two signed vases, two lekyths , he painted. In addition, Beazley attributes another vase to him, or it is very close to his work. The Beazley Archive currently has four vases under its possible authorship. Possibly the Gales painter is identical to the potter Gales.

List of works

  1. Lekythos, Museum of Fine Arts , Boston , inventory number 13.195, found in Gela , motif: cows are brought to the sacrificial altar in a procession
  2. Lekythos, Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , Syracuse , inventory number 26967, found in Gela, motif: Komos scene
  3. Drinking bowl form B, Yale University Art Gallery , New Haven (formerly Arndt Collection ), inventory number 163, found in Vulci , motif: a young man lying down with a flute player
  4. Drinking bowl form A , Academic Art Museum , Bonn , inventory number 73, motif: dancing maenad ( interior ); attributed by Andreas Rumpf

literature

  • John D. Beazley : Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², pp. 35-36, 1621.
  • John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters. 2nd edition, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, p. 325.
  • Rainer Vollkommer : Gales . In: Derselbe (editor): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 261.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 35.1; Entry on the Beazley Archive website
  2. ↑ John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 36.2; Entry on the Beazley Archive website
  3. ↑ John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 36.a; Entry on the Beazley Archive website
  4. ↑ Adolf Greifenhagen : Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Germany 1, Bonn 1 (1938), p. 8, tables (3, 4) 3.2, 4.3 entry on the website of the Beazley Archive


personal data
SURNAME Gales painter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gales painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.