Gioia del Colle painter

The Gioia del Colle painter was an Apulian vase painter . His works are dated around the middle and second half of the 4th century BC. Dated.

The Gioia del Colle painter ( emergency name after several vases found in a grave in Gioia del Colle ) artistically follows the Lykurgos painter and the Varrese painter and is considered the predecessor of artists such as the Darius painter and the underworld painter . He is thematically and stylistically close to the painter from Copenhagen 4223 , both painters probably worked in the same workshop.

The artist is known for his large vases, including many volute craters, and for some hydration . Interestingly, scenes with men are depicted on the craters and exclusively with women on the hydria. They are usually with popular motifs such well sepulkral decorated vases used: On the front you can see mourners at a temple-like tomb ( naiskos ), on the back of a stele. Most of the youths depicted in Naiskos are reminiscent of statues. The volutes of the handles are usually decorated with relief masks, and there are often swan's heads at the base of the handle, which are often painted white. Under the handle approaches there are also often multiple palmette fans arranged one above the other , on the front of the neck either a figurative scene or a head embedded in tendrils can be seen.

The Gioia del Colle painter has a smaller repertoire of head images to decorate the necks of his vases, and his flower compositions are less imaginative than those of the painter from Copenhagen 4223.

literature

• Arthur Dale Trendall : red-figure vases from southern Italy and Sicily. A manual. von Zabern, Mainz 1991 ( cultural history of the ancient world, vol. 47), ISBN 3-8053-1111-7 (especially p. 101 f.)