Kodros painter

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Aegeus consults the Pythia , Kylix , 440-430 BC Chr., Berlin Collection of Antiquities

The Codrus Painter was an Attic - red-figure vase painters, the v of the fifth century in the third quarter. Worked.

It received its emergency name from the British classical archaeologist John D. Beazley due to a depiction of the mythical Attic king Kodros on a bowl he had painted in Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico Inv. PU 273. The Kodros painter mainly painted drinking bowls on which Attic heroes and myths, Dionysian scenes, athletes, youths and warriors can be seen. Typical of him is his interest in the male athletic body, which he carefully drew. The vases seem to have been intended primarily for export to Etruria and Magna Graecia , since most of the vessels painted by him and his circle were found there.

literature

  • John D. Beazley : Attic red-figure vase-painters . 2nd ed. Oxford 1963, pp. 1268-1272.
  • John Boardman : Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Classical Period . Thames and Hudson, London 1989, p. 98 figs. 238–241.
  • Amalia Avramidou: Attic Vases in Etruria: Another View on the Divine Banquet Cup by the Codrus Painter, In: American Journal of Archeology 110 (2006) pp. 265-279. Text on the internet

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personal data
SURNAME Kodros painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Attic red-figure vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr.