Gela painter

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Satyrs and maenads harvest olives; Olpe, around 500/410 BC Chr .; Paris, Louvre F 334

The Gela painter was an Attic vase painter of the black-figure style who lived around 510 to 480 BC. Was active in Athens .

A large part of his works, which mainly consist of lekyths , were exported to western Greece, especially to Sicily and here again to Gela , hence his emergency name . Panel paintings ( pinakes ) also come from him, as a well-preserved laying scene ( prothesis ) shows. His works are already very much in line with the new trends, especially red-figure vase painting, influenced. His painting style is not infrequently fleeting, but his pictures show originality. Especially with myth and genre scenes, he can do a lot. Many of his compositions on small vases correspond to those of larger, more expensive vases. In the Gela painter's shoulder ornaments, the usual outer buds have been replaced by leaves.

literature

  • Emilie Haspels : Attic black-figured lekythoi (= École française d'Athènes. Travaux et Mémoires. Volume 4). Boccard, Paris 1936, pp. 78-86. 205-215.
  • John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1956, pp. 473-475.
  • John D. Beazley: Paralipomena . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, pp. 214-216.
  • 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 , p. 126f.
  • Carolina Kesser Barcellos slides: O pintor de Gela. Características formais e estilísticas, decorativas e iconográficas . Dissertation São Paulo 2009 ( PDF ).

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SURNAME Gela painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Attic vase painter of the black-figure style
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC Chr.