Ghost painter

Fragment of a bowl by the ghost painter from the third quarter of the sixth century BC With depiction of an Amazonomachy ; Metropolitan Museum of Art (54.12.2)

The ghost painter is an Attic vase painter of the black-figure style named with an emergency name .

The ghost painter (English Wraith Painter ) painted not only lekyths but mainly droop bowls . His works are from the time after 540 BC. To apply. Its high-quality black-figure friezes in the handle zone of the bowls are striking. He is one of the few artists of this style who does not belong to the group of Rhodos 12264 . He got his emergency name because of his often somewhat insubstantial looking figures. He painted a special form of the kylix , in which the usual cup foot was replaced by the usual feet for small master cups . He then painted these bowls in the style of droop bowls. With the Lekythen he preferred the so-called Sub-Deianeira -form and shoulder Lekythen . The painter of Nicosia-Olpe is close to the ghost painter .

literature

John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters , Oxford 1956, pp. 199-201
John Boardman : Black-Figure Vases from Athens. A handbook (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 1). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9 , pp. 69, 118.

Web links

Ghost-painters in the Beazley Archive (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Ghost painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Attic vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	6th century BC Chr.