Ganymede painter

A Ganymede painter is an Apulian vase painter from the third quarter of the 4th century BC. Chr. Designated.

Naiskos scene, around 340/20 BC Chr.

The Ganymede Painter is stylistically close to the Patera Painter , with whom he probably worked. It was an artistically ambitious painter who not infrequently dared to work on difficult compositions. In the naïskoi he designed, there are often two people, not infrequently a horse as well. Particularly noteworthy is a picture that shows Orpheus at the grave of a poet. On the decorated by the Ganymede Painter hydriai he always shows exclusively women as accompaniment figures and a flower in naiskos. Since he always shows weapons in the naiskos, they often look overloaded. The flower tendrils shown by the artist are particularly rich in detail. The scene at the neck on his name vase , which gave him his emergency name and shows Ganymede how he was kidnapped by the swan, is worked into a rich tendril.

Oinochoe with a lid by Armidale painter: head in the calyx between tendrils. 340/10 BC Chr. Antikensammlung Kiel, inventory number B 572.

The faces, heads and especially chins of the Ganymede painter appear rounder than those of the Patera painter. In contrast, female breasts in particular are very similar and mostly pear-shaped. Overall, his painting style appears more fluid, especially the youngsters appear softer. He rarely depicts mythological scenes. A volute crater shows amphiaraos standing in front of Pluto , which is reminiscent of the Baltimore painter . Hydria show an assembly of gods and a scene from the Niobe myth . Several beakers show figurative scenes by the Ganymede painter on the body, while on the lid there is heads with white jackets . They are attributed to the Armidale painter . Some researchers consider both painters to be identical.

literature

Arthur D. Trendall : Red-figure vases from southern Italy and Sicily. A manual. ( Kulturgeschichte der Antiken Welt Vol. 47) von Zabern, Mainz 1991, ISBN 3-8053-1111-7 , pp. 113–117.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Ganymede painter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ganymedes painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Apulian vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH	4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	4th century BC BC or 3rd century BC Chr.