Lucanian vase painting
The Lucanian vase painting was v 450-325. A regional style of Lower Italian - red-figure vase painting . It was the oldest sub-Italian regional style. Together with the Sicilian and Paestan vase painting , it formed a closer stylistic community.
Lucanian vase painting began around 430 BC. With the work of the Pisticci painter . This probably worked in Pisticci , where some of his works were found, and was still strongly in the Attic tradition. His vases hardly show any mythological scenes, which was probably in line with local tastes. Most were made as grave goods. Other early production centers were in Policoro and Metapont . The successors of the Pisticci painter, the Amykos painter (a pupil) or the Kyklops painter , had their workshop in Metapont. In 1973 there was evidence of a pottery workshop in the city in the late 5th and early 4th centuries, when excavations unearthed a pottery furnace with vase fragments by the Amykos painter, the Kreusa painter and the Dolon painter . They were the first to create the new Nestoris type of vase . Lucanian vases were exported to Apulia in considerable quantities . The Dolon painter may have emigrated to Apulia, his late work shows influences of the Apulian Tarporley painter . Around 370 BC The workshops in Policoro and Metapont closed and production was relocated to the hinterland. After the middle of the 4th century BC BC the quality of the Lukan vases decreased more and more. The subjects of the picture became more and more monotonous, exports to Apulia almost stopped. Around 325 BC Production ended, the last significant representatives were the Primato painter, influenced by the Apulian vase painter Lykurgos painter, and the Roccanova painter . About 1,500 Lukan vases are known.
Often mythical scenes and images from theater life were shown. So in accordance with the formed Cheophoroi of Aeschylus named Cheophoroi painter on several of his vases of scenes from this tragedy. At this time, the influence of Apulian vase painting was also noticeable. Above all, the polychromy and ornamental plant decorations now became standard.
literature
- Arthur D. Trendall : The red-figured vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily. 2 volumes. Clarendon Press et al., Oxford et al. 1967.
- Arthur D. Trendall: The red-figured vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily. (= University of London. Institute of Classical Studies. Bulletin. Supplement. 41). Supplement 3. University of London - Institute of Classical Studies, London 1983, ISBN 0-900587-44-X .
- Arthur D. Trendall: Red-figure vases from southern Italy and Sicily. A manual (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 47). von Zabern, Mainz 1991, ISBN 3-8053-1111-7 , especially pp. 20-28, 63-84.
- Rolf Hurschmann : Lucanian vases. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 7, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01477-0 , Sp. 491.
- Thomas Mannack : Greek vase painting. An introduction. Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1743-2 , p. 131.
