Hippolytus painter
Hippolytos painter or painters Hippolytoskraters is the notname a spätkorinthisch - schwarzfigurigen vases painter, which is about 575 v until after the 550th Was active.
His painting is characterized by the use of white lotus palmette ornaments and swans on the neck of the vases, images of riders in the picture frieze, often flanking two bearded men with spears, and sirens or griffins below the main frieze . The vases that are definitely attributed to the Hippolytos painter are exclusively colonic craters .
The Hippolytos painter is named after his name vase in the Louvre in Paris , on which a fight over the fallen Hippolytus is depicted. In contrast to the other figures, this one has an inscription on the vase by name ( ͱιππόλυτος ).
Occasionally, amphorae , olpai and an oinochoe are attributed to him or at least stylistically located close to him. Jack L. Benson , who referred to him as the painter of the Hippolytoskrater , assigned him some amphorae to the group of white horses , which Darrell A. Amyx brought into the environment of the Hippolyte painter .
literature
- Jack L. Benson : The history of the Corinthian vases Schwabe, Basel 1953, pp. 57–58.
- Darrell A. Amyx : Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period . University of California Press, Berkeley 1988, ISBN 0-520-03166-0 , pp. 262-263. 328-329.
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Inventory number E 636 .
- ^ Darrell A. Amyx: Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period . University of California Press, Berkeley 1988, p. 390.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hippolytus painter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Painter of the Hippolytos Crater, Hippolytos Painter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Corinthian vase painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th century BC BC or 6th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 6th century BC Chr. |