Gales (potter)

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Gales ( ancient Greek Γαλές ) was an ancient Attic - Greek potter who worked in the last third of the 6th century BC. Chr. In Athens worked.

Today Gales is only known from two signatures on two lekyths decorated with red figures . Both vases were decorated by the same vase painter , named Gales painter after the potter . Potters and painters may be identical. Further works have not yet been assigned to him through stylistic comparisons.

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

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.

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


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