Makron (vase painter)

Louvre G 149: bowl: youth with phiale at the altar

Makron ( Greek  Μάκρων ) was a Greek vase painter of the red-figure style who lived from around 500 to 470 BC. Was active in Athens . He worked closely with the potter Hieron , almost all of the vessels signed by him are painted by Makron. John D. Beazley attributed 339 works to him, 330 of which  are bowls . Norbert Kunisch was able to increase the number of his works in his monographic study on the artist.

He painted vessels in large quantities and served the mass market. Despite this extensive production, he never simply repeated himself in his pictures and motifs. Again and again he succeeded in developing new forms of movement and relationships, so that his creative power did not suffer from the monotonous work routine. His favorite subjects were depictions of the como and the symposium , love scenes, scenes with boys and athletes. He also devotes himself, if only rarely, to the Dionysian Thiaos and, even more rarely, to myths.

His early works are characterized by extensive compositions with numerous overlapping figures. With his further development, however, he soon found pleasure in less extensive figure ensembles. He concentrated more on the representations of individual large figures and their relationships to one another. In the outer and secondary images, he adhered more strictly to given shapes, which, however, never seem boring due to their non-repeating elements.

He worked a lot for export to Etruria , but also for the Greek market.

Works (selection)

• Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Museum

  Bowl AIA B10

• Basel, Antikenmuseum and Ludwig Collection

  Bowl Kä 410

• Berlin, Collection of Antiquities

  Bowl F 2290 • Bowl F 2291 • Bowl F 2292 • Bowl F 2301 • Fragment of a bowl 3728

• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts

  Bowl 01.8022 • Bowl 01.8072 • Bowl 03.856 • Bowl 08.293 • Bowl 13.67 • Skyphos 13.186 • Bowl 89.293

• Bowdoin, Bowdoin College Museum of Art

  Askos 1923.30

• Bremen, Antikenmuseum im Schnoor

  Kylix

• Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire

  Bowl R 247

• Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr College

  Fragment of a shell P 193

• Cambridge, Harvard University Art Museums

  Bowl 1972.41

• Frankfurt am Main, Museum of Prehistory and Early History

  Fragment of a shell VF b 404

• Gotha, castle museum

  Bowl 49

• London, The British Museum

  Skyphos E 140

• Madrid, Museo Arqueológico Nacional

  Bowl 11268

• Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum

  Bowl 86.AE.292

• Munich, collections of antiquities

  Bowl 2617 • Bowl 2643 • Bowl 2644 • Bowl 2654 • Bowl 2655 • Bowl 2657

• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Bowl 06.152 • Bowl 12.231.1 • Bowl 20.246

• Orvieto, Museo Faina

  Shell 36

• Oxford, Mississippi, University of Mississippi

  Bowl 1977.3.105

• Paris, Musee National du Louvre

  Fragment of a bowl C 10918 • Bowl G 141 • Bowl G 142 • Bowl G 143 • Bowl G 145 • Skyphos G 146 • Bowl G 149 • Bowl MNE 961

• Philadelphia, University Museum

  Bowl MS 2515

• Providence, Rhode Island School of Design

  Askos 25,074

• Rome, Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia

  Shell 50396

• Saint Petersburg, Hermitage

  Bowl 649

• Toledo (Ohio), Toledo Museum of Art

  Bowl 1972.55

• Vienna, Art History Museum

  Bowl 3698

• Würzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum

  Bowl L 480 • Bowl L 481

literature

• John D. Beazley : Attic Red-figure Vase-painters. 2nd edition, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1963, pp. 458-481.
• John D. Beazley: Paralipomena . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, pp. 377-379.
• Norbert Kunisch : Makron (= research on ancient ceramics, series II: Kerameus volume 10). Zabern, Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-8053-1890-1 .
• Norbert Kunisch: Macron . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 2: L-Z. Addendum A – K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-11414-1 , pp. 45-48.

Web links

Commons : Makron  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Makron in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Makron in the Louvre