Haimon painter

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Running Amazons . Lekythos of the Haimon Painter. Walters Art Museum , Baltimore 48.241

A Haimon painter is an Attic vase painter who worked in the black-figure style in the first half of the 5th century BC. Was active. He received his emergency name from Emilie Haspels after Haimon , the last victim who killed the Sphinx , a scene which he portrayed at least four times.

Peleus pursues Thetis on a mastoid by the Haimon painter or in his style. Paris, Cabinet des Médailles 349

The Haimon painter was a successor to the Edinburgh painter and a younger contemporary of the Sappho and Diosphos painter . He mainly decorated small, slender lekyths in a black - figure and white - ground style. Until then, the bowl-shaped mouths of the lekyths became more and more expansive, but the shape of the mouths changed to a high, concave profile (so-called “chimney-lekyths”). The Haimon Painter was one of the first artists to decorate this new form.

With his lekyths, the decoration with two recessed stripes in the lower part of the vessel covered with black is common. The image fields are often streaked with branches. The rather slim figures in the image fields often seem aimlessly acting.

The Haimon-painter is the best painter named after him Haimon group , made which includes hundreds of mass-produced small lekythoi include modest quality, under the attribution type of Haimon Painter ( manner of the Haimon Painter ) are compiled. A small group of Choes showing red figures in the Six-technique , but no detailed scratches, can also be connected to the Haimon painter and his environment.

literature

  • Emilie Haspels : Attic black-figured lekythoi (= École française d'Athènes. Travaux et Mémoires. Volume 4). Boccard, Paris 1936, pp. 130-141. 241-247.
  • John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1956, pp. 538-571.
  • John D. Beazley: Paralipomena . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, pp. 269-287.
  • 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. 162.

Web links

Commons : Haimon Painter  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Remarks

  1. ↑ John Richard Green: A Series of Added Red Figure Choes . In: Archäologischer Anzeiger 1970, pp. 475–487.
personal data
SURNAME Haimon painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Attic black-figure vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC Chr.