Kyllenios painter

Dinos with stands in the August Kestner Museum in Hanover .

The Kyllenios Painter is an Attic vase painter of the black-figure style . His creative period is in the second quarter of the 6th century BC. BC.

The Kyllenios painter is best known for his drawings on Tyrrhenian amphorae . He is considered a good artist and is witty and humorous in his presentation. On his name vase , which actually depicts the birth of Athena , Hermes plays himself in the foreground, which the draftsman lets say “I am Hermes from Kyllene”. Kyllene ( Kyllenios ) is the home of the god in Arcadia .

literature

John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1956, pp. 94-106.
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. 41.
Jeroen Kluiver: The Tyrrhenian Group of Black-figure Vases. From the Athenian Kerameikos to the Tombs of South Etruria. Amsterdam 2003, ISBN 90-72067-10-X

Web links

Vases of the Kyllenios Painter in Perseus

personal data
SURNAME	Kyllenios painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Attic vase painter of the black-figure style
DATE OF BIRTH	7th century BC BC or 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.