Cleophrades Painter
The Cleophrades Painter (active in Athens from around 505 until shortly after 475 BC ) was a Greek vase painter of the red-figure style . He got his emergency name because he painted many vessels of the potter Cleophrades . John Boardman calls him the best painter of the early 5th century BC. Next to the Berlin painter . In addition to the red-figure style vases, there are also some examples of the black-figure style ( Panathenaic price amphoras ) known.
Over 100 vases and fragments are attributed to the Kleophrades painter. His preferred vase shapes were peliks , stamnoi , calpids and bowls. Two of his volute craters are unique as they have two friezes on the neck. John D. Beazley thought that the works of the Stiefel painter may represent the late work of the Cleophrades painter, which, however, contradicts the more recent research.
After the discovery of an Epiktetos signature on the Pelike F 2170 in the Berlin Collection of Antiquities , the painter was referred to as Epiktetos II , because his work has nothing to do with Epiktetos, who was already known as a vase painter . In the meantime, however, the signature has turned out to be a forgery, so that the professional world has returned to the old emergency name.
Selected Works
- Basel, Antikenmuseum and Ludwig Collection
- Bell crater BS 482 • Panathenaic amphora Kä 424
- Berlin, Collection of Antiquities
- Pelike F 2170
- Boston, Museum of Fine Arts
- Panathenaic amphora 10.178
- Cambridge, Harvard University Art Museums
- Crater 1960.236
- London, The British Museum
- Neck amphora E 270
- New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Neck amphora 13.233
- Malibu, The J. Paul Getty Museum
- Panathenaic amphora 77.AE.11 • Volute crater 77.AE.11 • Hydria 85.AE.316
- Munich, Glyptothek and Antikensammlung
- Amphora 2305 • amphora 2344
- Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
- Hydria 2422
- Paris, Musee National du Louvre
- Loutrophoros CA 453 • Stamnos G 55
- Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania
- Stamnos L-64-185
- Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art
- Panathenaic amphora 1961.24
- Würzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum
- Amphora L 222 • Amphora L 507 • Amphora L 508
- Panathenaic amphora 1909.12 • Panathenaic amphora 1909.13
literature
- John D. Beazley : Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd edition, Oxford 1963
- John D. Beazley: The Cleophrades painter . Reprint d. rev. Edition 1944 and 1948. Mainz 1974. ( Research on ancient ceramics, Series I: Pictures of Greek Vases. Volume 6)
- John Boardman : Red-Figure Vases from Athens. The archaic time (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 4). 4th edition. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-0234-7 .
- Erika Kunze-Götte: The Cleophrades painter among painters of black-figure amphorae: a workshop study . Mainz 1992.
Web links
- Literature by and about Cleophrades painter in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ John Boardman : Red-Figure Vases from Athens. The archaic time. von Zabern, 4th edition, p. 103
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cleophrades Painter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek vase painter of the red-figure style |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 6th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th century BC Chr. |