Painter of the Agora Chairias bowls

Naked hetaera with jackets on their heads, kneeling in front of an altar with a wreath in their hands; around 500/490 BC BC, Agora Museum

The painter of the Agora Chairias bowls or the group of Agora Chairias bowls was a Greek vase painter who worked towards the end of the 6th and beginning of the 5th century BC. Chr. In Athens worked.

The painter of the Agora Chairias bowls was one of the relatively early red-figure bowl painters . His creative period is slightly varying by different researchers in about the last decade of the 6th or the first decade of the 5th century BC. BC. Its name has not been passed down, which is why John D. Beazley , who recognized and defined his artistic handwriting within the large body of ancient painted ceramics, has made it distinguishable with an emergency name . He received this emergency name after five name vases that were found during excavations in Athens and are now kept in the Agora Museum . Four of them carry asInscription the favorite names ΧΑΙΡΙΑΣ (Chairias), fragmented in part, in part with the addition ΚΑΛΟΣ ([is] nice). Beazley also attributes two other vases to him. There are also six other bowls and fragments of bowls that are directly related to him in various forms. The Beazley Archive now lists the painter as a group of Agora Chairias bowls . At times, Beazley led him as a painter or group of Agora P 24102 and Agora Chairias group .

The works of the painter of the Agora Chairias bowls are comparatively easy to recognize by their stylistic peculiarities. He has a preference for the representation of neat female figures, which he knows how to portray in an artistically appealing way.

literature

John D. Beazley : Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1963², pp. 176-177.
John Boardman : Red-Figure Vases from Athens. The archaic time (= cultural history of the ancient world . Volume 4). 4th edition. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-0234-7 , p. 70.

Web links

Commons : Painter of the Agora Chairias cup - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Entry in the Union List of Artist Names Online (English, wrongly merged with the Chairias painter )

Remarks

↑ inventory number P 24102; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 176.1; Entry on the Beazley Archive website

personal data
SURNAME	Painter of the Agora Chairias bowls
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Group of Agora Chairias bowls; Painter of Agora P24102; Group of Agora P 24102; Agora Chairias group
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek vase painter of the red-figure style
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.

[1] ventory number P 24102; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 176.1; Entry on the Beazley Archive website