Kiss painter

Berlin name vase of the kiss painter.

The Kiss painter (Kiss Painter) (active ca. 520-510 v. Chr.) Was a Attic, today name not known vase painter of attisch- red-figure style. He received his emergency name after the depiction of the bowl F 2269 in the Berlin Collection of Antiquities and the bowl fragment in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 07.286.50, each showing a young man and a girl, who are hugging each other and kissing their mouths . The kiss painter is one of the early red-figure bowl painters and is stylistically close to the Chairias painter .

Works

• Adria, Museo Civico

  Fragment of a bowl B 778

• Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Museum

  Bowl AIA B 5

• Berlin, Collection of Antiquities

  Bowl F 2269

• Florence, Museo Archeologico 12B56 + Rome, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia + Heidelberg, University 38

  Fragments of a shell

• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Fragment of a shell 07.286.50

literature

• Adolf Greifenhagen : Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum , Berlin Vol. 2, 1962, pp. 18–19 plate 62.
• John D. Beazley : Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters , 2nd. ed. Oxford 1963, pp. 177-178. 1577.
• John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic Black-figure Vase-painters and to Attic Red-figure Vase-painters , Oxford 1971, p. 339.