Heschylus

Eye bowl of Hischylus, Würzburg, Martin-von-Wagner-Museum L 467

Hischylos ( Greek  Ἱσχύλος ) (active around 540-515 BC) was an Attic potter .

Only bowls of him are known, first he made eye bowls , then ribbon bowls . The beginning of his creative period falls in the phase of transition from black-figure to red-figure vase painting . Works from both styles have been preserved. From the black-figure phase, here he is counted among the minor masters , three signed bowls have survived. However, the vast majority of workshop production has been painted in the red-figure style. His workshop must have been large, he commissioned numerous vase painters to paint his vessels, including Epiktetos , Pheidippos , Sakonides and the Hischylos painters named after him and painters of the Cambridge Hischylos bowl .

Works (selection)

The painter who performed the work is shown in brackets behind the respective vase

• Basel, Antikenmuseum and Ludwig Collection

Eye cup BS 436 (Epiktetos)

• Berlin, Collection of Antiquities

Fragment of an eye cup F 2100 (Epiktetos)

• Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum

Eye cup GR 38.1864 (G 60) (Sakonides) • Eye cup GR 14.1937

• Civitavecchia, Museo Civico

Tape cup 1524

• Heidelberg, University of Antiquities Museum

Fragment of an eye cup 8 (Pheidippos) • Fragment of an eye cup 18 (Epiktetos)

• London, British Museum

Eye cup E 3 (Epiktetos)

• Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum

86.AE.276 (Oltos)

• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Band shell 29.131.6

• New York, Christie's

Eye cup 5th / 6th December 2001, No. 435

• Orvieto, Museo Civico (Collezione Faina)

Eye cup 97 (Epiktetos)

• Rome, Museo Torlonia

Eye cup 158 (Epiktetos)

• St. Petersburg, Hermitage

Eye cup ГР-7029 (645) (Epiktetos)

• Vatican, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco

Fragment of an eye cup AST 297

• Würzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum

Eye cup L 467 (Pheidippos)

literature

• Henry B. Walters : Hischylos . In: Journal of Hellenic Studies 29, 1909, pp. 103-119.
• Friedrich Leonard : Hischylos. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IX, 1, Stuttgart 1914, Sp. 1155-1158 ( digitized version ).
• John D. Beazley : Little-Master Cups . In: Journal of Hellenic Studies 52, 1912, pp. 189–190. 201.
• Hansjörg Bloesch : Forms of Attic bowls from Exekias to the end of the strict style , Benteli, Bern 1940, pp. 31–35.
• John D. Beazley: Attic Black-figure Vase-painters . Clarendon Press Oxford 1956, pp. 166-167. 688.
• John D. Beazley: Attic Red-figure Vase-painters . 2nd Edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1963, pp. 161-162. 1629-1630.
• John D. Beazley: Paralipomena . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, p. 69.
• Beth Cohen : Attic bilingual vases and their painters . Garland, New York 1978, ISBN 0-8240-3220-9 , pp. 337-346. 353-356.
• Beth Cohen: Hischylus . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 1: A-K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-598-11413-3 , pp. 327-328.

Web links

• Hischylus at the J. Paul Getty Museum
• Hischylus in the Beazley Archives

Notes and individual references

1. ^ The signature on the Kolonettenkrater Kassel, Staatliche Museen T 698 is modern: John D. Beazley: Paralipomena . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, p. 69.
2. ↑ Eye cup E 3 on britishmuseum.org .
3. ↑ 86.AE.276 on getty.edu .
4. ↑ Bandschale 29.131.6 on metmuseum.org .
5. ↑ Eye bowl 5th / 6th December 2001, No. 435 on christies.com .
6. ↑ Eye Cup ГР-7029 (645) on hermitagemuseum.org .