Hermonax

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Hermonax (active between 470 and 440 BC in Athens ) was a Greek vase painter of the so-called Attic red-figure style. Ten of his works are known today, signed “Hermonax hat [it] painted” . These are mainly stamnoi , peliks and a bowl. In addition, he also painted mostly small-format neck amphorae , loutrophorae , lekytha , pitchers and hydrates .

Hermonax: Stamnos G 416, Paris Louvre

He was evidently a student of the Berlin painter , but for stylistic reasons he may have come to his workshop late. Hermonax only took over its spaciousness and dryness. There is no trace of the Berlin painter's moving early works at Hermonax. Nevertheless, he managed to break new ground with what he had taken over. Hermonax began to pay little attention to the surface of the vessels. He pushed individual ornaments, especially those on the handles, further and further to the edge or simply left them out entirely. In some works he even used the handle to expand his figurative compositions to these. Sometimes he painted so many, even overlapping figures, that the light part almost displaces the dark background of the vessels. Only on small vessels did he dispense with large figure ensembles. By creating groups of figures on large vessels, Hermonax broke new ground. Up to now there were certain standards for the number of painted figures for certain representations of well-known mythological scenes. Hermonax, on the other hand, enriched these scenes with additional figures that had nothing to do with the story shown and merely expanded it. However, this had the consequence that figures appear again and again in his works that appear weakened in their representational power, because individual parts of them protrude from the traditional painting surface and are, for example, continued on the handles. Many archaeologists therefore assume that Hermonax transferred prefabricated scenes onto his vases without first asking himself whether they would even fit on the body of the vessel in this form.

Archeology ascribes over 200 vases to Hermonax today.

Selected Works

  • Adria, Museo Civico
Fragment of a bowl B 34 • Fragment of a bowl B 296 • Fragments of a bowl B 785
  • Agrigento, Museo Archeologico Regionale
Lekythos
  • Altenburg, State Lindenau Museum
Amphora 289 • Oinochoe 297
  • Ancona, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
Two fragments of different shells
  • Argos, Archaeological Museum
Bell crater C 909
  • Athens, Agora Museum
Fragment of a Loutrophoros P 15018 • Hydria P 25101 • Fragment of a Stamnos P 25357 • Ceramic fragments P 25357 A • Fragment of a crater P 30017 • Fragment of a bell crater P 30019 Fragment of a shell CP 11948 • Fragment of a Lekythos P 30065 • Fragment of a Hydria P 30134 • Fragments of a pelike P 8959
  • Athens, Acropolis Museum
Fragments of various loutrophores
  • Athens, National Museum
Ceramic fragment 2,692 • Lekythos 1632
  • Baltimore, Walters Art Museum
Amphora 48.55
  • Barcelona, ​​Museo Arqueologico
Lekythos 581 • Fragment of a bowl 4233.6
  • Basel, AntikenmuseumBasel and the Ludwig Collection
Pelike BS 483 • Oinochoe KA 430
  • Bern, Historical Museum
Pelike 26454
  • Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico
Oinochoe 344
  • Boston, Museum of Fine Arts
Stamnos 01.8031
  • Boulogne, Musée Communale
Amphora 125
  • Bristol, City Museum
Hydria H4631
  • Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts
Pelike A 1579 • Hydria A 3098
  • Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr College
Fragment of a shell P 199 • Fragment of a shell P 209 • Fragment of a shell P 989
  • Cambridge (Massachusetts), Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Fragment of a shell 1995.18.42
  • Chicago, University of Chicago
Pelike 171
  • Christchurch, University of Canterbury
amphora
  • Columbia, Museum of Art & Archeology
Amphora 83.187
  • Dresden, Albertinum
Fragment of a shell
  • Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina
Oinochoe 2461 • Oinochoe B May 31, 1958 • Lekanis T0 • Oinochoe T 216 CVP • Oinochoe T 607 • Oinochoe T 897
  • Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco
Fragment of a stamnos 14B5 • Ceramic fragment 14B53 • Stamnos 3995 • Fragment of a stamnos PD 421
  • Gela, Museo Archeologico
Lekythos N 115
  • Glasgow, Museum & Art Gallery
Pelike 1883.32A
  • Gotha, castle museum
Amphora 50
  • Göttingen, Georg-August University
Fragment of a bowl H 74
Lekythos 1930.184
  • Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls-University
Fragment of a stamnos 170 • pelike 171 • fragment of a lekythos 172 • fragment of a bowl 173
  • Innsbruck, Leopold Franzens University
Fragment of a bowl II.12.66 • Fragment of a bowl II.12.67
  • Istanbul, Archaeological Museum
Ceramic fragment A 33.2322 • Fragment of a bowl A 33.2350
  • Karlsruhe, Baden State Museum
Fragment of a dish 69.35C • Two fragments of a dish 86.360 AB • Fragment of a dish 69.35 C
  • Kassel, Museum Schloß Wilhelmshöhe
Amphora T 696
  • Katania, Museo Civico
Hydria 706
  • Cologne, university
Amphora 308
  • Corinth, Archaeological Museum
Fragment of a crater C 66.40
  • London, British Museum
Amphora E 312 • Pelike E 371 • Pelike P 374 • Stamnos E 445
  • London, Victoria & Albert Museum
Hydria 4816.1858
  • Los Angeles, County Museum of Art
Pelike A 5933.50.41
Neck amphora S 8176
  • Madrid, Museo Arqueológico Nacional
Amphora 11098 • amphora L 172
  • Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg University
Fragment of a pelike (?) 144
  • Manchester, Manchester Art Gallery
Pelike III.I.41
  • Mannheim, Reiss Museum
Stamnos 59
  • Marseilles, Borely Museum
Stamnos 1630 • Pelike 3592 • Pelike 7023
  • Melfi, Museo Nazionale del Melfese
Amphora (loan)
  • Metaponto, Museo Civico
Amphora 20113
  • Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts
Fragment of a shell RS 470
  • Moscow, Pushkin Museum
Amphora 601 • amphora 1071
  • Munich, Glyptothek and Antikensammlung
Stamnos 2413 • Lekythos 2477 • Lekythos 2478
  • Münster, Archaeological Museum of the University
Lekythos 668
  • Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
Amphora 81481 • Amphora H 3385 • Pelike SP 2028
  • Naples, Palazzo di San Nicandro (Museo Mustilli)
Pelike
  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lekythos 26.60.77 • Lekythos 41.162.19 • Bowl 1972.70.2 • Fragment of a bowl 1972.257 • Fragment of a bowl 1973.175.4A-B
  • Norwich, Castle Museum
Amphora 36.96
  • Orvieto, Museo Civico (Collezione Faina)
Bowl 43 • Lekythos 66 A
  • Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
Amphora 1966.500
  • Paestum, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
Oinochoe 57799
  • Palermo, Collezione Collisani
Amphora R 33
  • Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale
Lekythos 1445 • Lekythos V 672
  • Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale (Cabinet des Médailles)
Lekythos 489
  • Paris, Musee National du Louvre
Pelike CP 10765 • Fragment of a Pelike CP 10766 • Shell CP 10955 • Fragment of a Pelike CP 11060 • Fragment of a Pelike CP 11061 • Fragment of a Pelike CP 11064 • Fragment of a Stamnos CP 11065 • Fragment of a Stamnos CP 11067 • Kremik fragment CP 11068 • Fragment of a shell CP 11944 • fragment of a shell CP 11945 • fragment of a shell CP 11946 • fragment of a shell CP 11947 • fragment of a shell CP 11948 • fragment of a shell CP 11949 • fragment of a shell CP 11950 • fragment of a shell CP 11951 • fragment of a shell CP 11952 • Fragment of a shell CP 11953 • Fragment of a shell CP 11954 • Shell G 268 • Stamnos G 336 • Pelike G 374 • Amphota G 376 • Stamnos 413 • Stamnos G 416 • Pelike G 546 • Oinochoe G 573
Stamnos Louvre G 413: Detail Philoctetes
  • Rhodes, Archaeological Museum
Hydria 12884
  • Rome, Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia
Stamnos 5241 • Pelike (Beazley No. 33) • Pelike 50459
  • Samothrace, Archaeological Museum
Fragment of a bell crater
  • St. Louis, St. Louis Art Museum
Amphora WU 3271
  • San Simeon, Hearst Corporation
Amphora 12359
  • St. Petersburg, Hermitage
Amphora 696 • Pelike 727 • Stamnos 804 • Stamnos 2070 • Stamnos 4121 • Fragment of a Stamnos NB 6463 • Amphora ST 1461 • Amphora 1672 • Amphora ST 1692 • Stamnos ST 1694
  • Sarajevo, Zemaljski muzej Bosne i Hercegovine
Fragment of a Hydria 31 • Loutrophoros 389 • Fragment of a Loutrophoros 425 • Fragment of a Loutrophoros 426
  • Stockholm, Medelhavsmuseum
Shell G2334
  • Syracuse, Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
Lekythos 24552
  • Tampa, Tampa Museum of Art
Kylix 86.89
  • Trieste, Museo Storia ed Arte
Stamnos S 424
  • Tübingen, Eberhard Karls University
Fragment of a bowl E 43 • Fragment of a Loutrophoros E 90 • Fragment of a Loutrophoros E 99 • Fragment of a Pelike S101583
  • Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano
Stamnos 16526
  • Vienna, Art History Museum
Pelike 336 • Pelike 1095 • Pelike IV 3728
  • Vienna, university
Fragment of a bowl 503.50 • Ceramic fragment
  • Wiesbaden, State Office
amphora
Amphora L 504
  • Zurich, University
Fragment of a stamnos 3550 • Bowl L 95

literature

  • Hanns E. Langenfass: Hermonax. Studies on Chronology. Univ. Diss., Munich 1972.
  • John H. Oakley: Athamas, Ino, Hermes, and the Infant Dionysus. A Hydria by Hermonax. In: Ancient Art. 25: 44-47 (1982).
  • Cornelia Isler-Kerényi : Hermonax in Zurich, 1. A puzzle with Hermonax shards. In: Ancient Art. 1983, 26, pp. 127-135.
  • Cornelia Isler-Kerényi: Hermonax in Zurich, 2. The neck amphora Haniel. In: Ancient Art. 27: 54-57 (1984).
  • Cornelia Isler-Kerényi: Hermonax in Zurich, 3. The bowl painter. In: Ancient Art. 27: 154-165 (1984).
  • Cornelia Isler-Kerényi: Hieron and Hermonax. In: Ancient Greek and related pottery. Proceedings of the international vase symposium, Amsterdam 12-15 April 1984. Amsterdam 1984, p. 164.
  • Cornelia Isler-Kerényi: Hermonax ei suoi temi dionisiaci. In: Images et sociétés en Grèce ancienne. L'iconographie comme méthode d'analysis. Actes du Colloque international. Lausanne 8-11 février 1984 (Lausanne 1987), pp. 169-175.

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Hermonax
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek vase painter of the Attic red-figure style
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr.