Centaur Painter

The Centaur Painter was an Attic vase painter of the black-figure style . He was in the middle of the 6th century BC. Active in Athens and is one of the late minor masters .

The centaur painter was named with this emergency name after the frequent depiction of centaurs on his vases . He painted his works mainly with horses and mythical creatures such as centaurs and satyrs . He depicts his characters vividly, but also with a certain nervousness. Unlike most other vase painters, he does without palmettes with handles .

literature

John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters , Oxford 1956, pp. 189-190
John Boardman : Black-Figure Vases from Athens. A handbook (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 1). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9 , p. 67.

personal data
SURNAME	Centaur Painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Attic vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	6th century BC Chr.