Critomenes
Critomenes was a Greek potter, active in the middle of the 6th century BC. In Athens . He is one of the little masters .
He is only known from the signature of a skyphus from Sardis in Princeton, Art Museum 29.180. The second letter of the signature is preserved only fragmentary and could more of a "Rho" have been as a "lambda", then likely the name instead of the originally read K l itomenes' (Smith, Beazley) K r been itomenes be (Heesen).
The skyphos of a special shape ( band skyphos ) is decorated like a Kleinmeister bowl . A swan can be seen in the medallion inside, and the signature is attached between the palmettes on the outside. The signature is distributed over both sides of the vessel, which otherwise only occurs in the case of the potter Xenocles in the peripheral bowl Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna IV 3670.
literature
- HRW Smith, in: American Journal of Archeology 30. 1926, pp. 432-441.
- John D. Beazley : Attic Black-figure Vase-painters. Oxford 1956, p. 167.
- John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters. Oxford 1971, p. 69.
- Peter Heesen: Kritomenes. In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 1: A-K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-598-11413-3 , p. 431.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Critomenes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klitomenes (probably wrong reading of the name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek potter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th century BC BC or 6th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 6th century BC Chr. |