Hunt painter

Hunting scene on the name vase; around 555 BC Chr .; Paris, Louvre, E 670

With the provisional names Hunting painter ( English Hunt painter ) is a Greek vase painter called, considered one of the masters of Laconian vase painting and will go into drives v in the time between 560 and 540th To be dated.

Recovery of fallen fighters; around 560/50 BC Chr .; Antikensammlung Berlin , 3404.

The hunting painter was recognized by Arthur Lane in 1934 and confirmed in the revision of the material by Brian B. Shefton in 1956 and the extended investigation by Conrad M. Stibbe in 1972. Alongside the Arkesilas painter , the Reiter painter , the Boreaden painter and the Naukratis painter, he is one of the main painters of the laconic style. In addition to bowls , he mainly decorated hydria , but also lakaina . The clays of its bowls mainly show dance, fight and feast scenes. From the field of mythology, he mainly shows the deeds of Heracles . The name vase , which shows a possibly mythical boar hunt, stands out from the repertoire . Birds and fish are the secondary and filling motifs. The Hunting Painters be assigned about 80 works that in their decorative and meticulous brushwork ( John Boardman : original view of the world the laconic vase painting lasting influence). Along with the Naukratis painter, he is the only laconic vase painter who gives inscriptions on some vases with mythological themes. Most of the surviving works were found in Samos , Etruria and Sparta . The hunting painter was probably also a potter, which is suggested by peculiarities in the form of the painter's image carriers.

literature

Conrad M. Stibbe : Laconic vase painters of the sixth century BC Chr. Amsterdam 1972, ISBN 0-7204-8020-5 , pp. 121-150.
Matthias Steinhart : hunting painter. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 5, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01475-4 , column 836 f.
John Boardman : Early Greek Vase Painting. 11th - 6th Century BC. A Handbook (= World of Art ). Thames and Hudson, London 1998, ISBN 0-500-20309-1 , pp. 187-188.
Thomas Mannack : Greek vase painting. An introduction . Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1743-2 , pp. 126-127.
Conrad M. Stibbe: Laconic vase painters of the sixth century BC Chr. Supplement . Zabern, Mainz 2004, ISBN 3-8053-3279-3 , pp. 53-86.

Remarks

^ Shell Paris, Louvre E 670; also fragments in the Antikenmuseum der Universität Leipzig T 302 and in Florence, Museo Archeologico 85118.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Hunt painter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hunt Painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	laconic vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.

[1] Shell Paris, Louvre E 670; also fragments in the Antikenmuseum der Universität Leipzig T 302 and in Florence, Museo Archeologico 85118.