List of Greek potters and vase painters
The list of Greek potters and vase painters collects the potters and vase painters known by name and those recognized by research and given emergency names . The period covered ranges from the Minoan and Mycenaean times , through the post-Mycenaean, geometric and orientalizing periods to the particularly well-studied artists of black-figure and red-figure vase painting to the last offshoots of figurative or ornamentally painted vases of the Hâdra genus . The list does not include ceramists who produced other products than vases in the field of fine ceramics, such as Tanagra figures or coarse ceramic dishes. In addition, with a few exceptions, the inclusion of ceramists in the list ends with the beginning of the Hellenistic period, as the decoration methods of this time differ fundamentally from those in the previous centuries. The list therefore represents the artists of the phases who created works with ornamental or figurative decorations. In addition, painters of clazomenic sarcophagi , who painted their works in the black-figure style, as well as potters and vase painters from Etruria are considered, as their works are closely linked to the works of Greek art. Likewise, the representatives of Cypriot vase painting, if there is a direct reference to Greek and Italian ceramics influenced by Greek artists, so there are recognized artist personalities.
The individual alphabetical sub-pages can be divided into up to three different sections. If there are artists with the respective first letter whose real names have been passed down, these are in the first section. Artists with emergency names follow. The third section contains groups of artists , workshops and vase classes , which have also been given emergency names. The artists with an emergency name addition are sorted according to the descriptive name part. Thus, painter , group , workshop , school or class are not sorted according to the name components with the additions of , der , des . The painter of Athens 533 , for example, is classified under Athens 533 in the alphabetical order. If different artist names vary so that they could be different artists, they will be included multiple times on the list. This does not happen if there are small things such as hyphens or individual letters in the spelling. Differences such as those in Berlin painter and Berlin painter or painter of the Frankfurt Eichellekythos and painter of the Frankfurt Lekythos are recorded . On the other hand, multiple entries with different spellings such as Elbows Out or Elbows-Out are dispensed with . Different spellings or names that were previously used are indicated in the Comments section . Names written in italics (apart from references) reflect English names or partial names for which there is no known equivalent in German (e.g. Worst Painter ). Umlauts and other letters are simply included in the alphabet. Ä becomes A , ö becomes o etc.
John D. Beazley , the most important fundamental researcher in the field of Attic vase painting, distinguished more than 1,500 different potters, painters, groups and classes, to which he assigned more than 30,000 different works. In addition, there are painters from other regions of Greater Greece, above all from Corinth and southern Italy (often named by Arthur D. Trendall ), but also from Boeotia, Laconia (basic research by Conrad M. Stibbe ), Thessaly, Eastern Greece, the Cyclades, who are distinguished by emergency names and other regions and locations. One can assume that there are well over 3,000 vase painters and potters who are different today, of which more than 3,000 can currently be found in this list. Through new excavations, discoveries (e.g. in the art trade or private collections) and research, new painters are constantly being identified or the assignment of individual vases to painter's hands is reinterpreted. It also happens that, in recent research, individual painters are recognized as just one artist, or works of art previously assigned to individual artists are assigned to several painters. In addition, there is a complex system of attributions within the artist groups such as “master”, “pupil”, “workshop”, “circle”, “in the way” or “related”. Artist groups and classes are sometimes not easy to distinguish from smaller painting styles and genres. Group compositions are generally based on the painting style, classes on the vessel shapes.
The list was drawn up on the basis of several standard works and is constantly being expanded. It cannot claim to be complete and would probably never be able to do justice to such a claim due to the constantly changing knowledge. In principle, all artists, groups, classes and workshops identified with a real name or an emergency name are accepted. If there are images of the artists in the Wikimedia Commons media collection , one is shown as an example. Any other existing images can be accessed via the image link.
All times given are estimates and relate to the period before the birth of Christ (BC). A corresponding addition was not made. For the sake of simplicity, the data are given in abbreviated form and have the following meanings:
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The art eras and styles are abbreviated as follows:
literature
- John D. Beazley : Attic Black-figure Vase-painters . Oxford 1956 [ = ABV ]
- John D. Beazley: Attic red-figure vase-painters . 2nd ed. Oxford 1963. [= ARV² ]
- John D. Beazley: Etruscan vase painting . Oxford 1947.
- John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters . Oxford 1971.
- John Boardman : Early Greek Vase Painting. 11th to 6th Century BC. A Handbook , Thames and Hudson, London 1998 (World of Art) ISBN 0-500-20309-1
- 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 .
- John Boardman: Red-Figure Vases from Athens. The classical time (= cultural history of the ancient world. Vol. 48). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1991, ISBN 3-8053-1262-8 .
- 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 .
- Thomas Mannack : Greek vase painting. An introduction . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2002. (also Theiss, Stuttgart 2002 ISBN 3-8062-1743-2 )
- Arthur D. Trendall : Red-figure vases from southern Italy and Sicily. A manual. von Zabern, Mainz 1991 (Cultural History of the Ancient World, Vol. 47), ISBN 3-8053-1111-7
- Emily Vermeule , Vassos Karageorghis : Mycenaean Pictoral Vase Painting. Harvard University Press, 1982 ISBN 978-0674596504
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Web links
- Pottery and painting directory of the Beazley Archive
- Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum online
- Directory of vase painters in the Union List of Artist Names (English)
- Directory of groups and classes in the Union List of Artist Names (English)
