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.

personal data
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.