Hegias (vase painter)
Hegias ( ancient Greek Ἡγίας ) was a Greek vase painter of the red-figure style , active in the middle of the 5th century BC. In Athens .
He is only known from a now lost bowl with his signature. The inside picture of the bowl shows a Nike handing a bulbous, footless vessel and a bowl to a naked, bearded man who can be recognized as an athlete by a strigilis . He is one of the successors of Duris .
literature
- Otto Magnus von Stackelberg : The graves of the Hellenes in sculptures and vase paintings , Berlin 1837, plate 25, 6-7.
- John D. Beazley : Attic Red-figure Vase-Painters , Oxford 1963, pp. 1670, 58bis.
- Martina Seifert : Hegias (II). In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 1: A-K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-598-11413-3 , p. 289.
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SURNAME | Hegias |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek vase painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr. |
DATE OF DEATH | 5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr. |