Painter of the Dresden Lekanis

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The painter of the Dresden Lekanis was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active around 580–570 BC. He emigrated to Boeotia and is identical to the Boeotian black-figure horse-bird painter ( horse-bird painter ).

The painter received his provisional names after in Dresden located Lekanis . It belongs to the Dresden sculpture collection and bears the inventory number ZV 1464. The vessel is 10.0 cm high, with handles 36.5 cm wide and has a base with a diameter of 13.0 cm.

Animal friezes, especially with sirens , are typical of the painter , their execution has been characterized as a caricature of the figures of the KX painter ( John Boardman ). His vases were found not only in Attica, but also in Taranto, Old Smyrna and Ampurias (Spain) . Most of his vases were made of lighter clay than is customary for Attic vases, which can be explained by the fact that he emigrated to Boeotia , where this clay was used. In Boeotia his style of painting became a bit coarser, but the specific style of drawing with incisions and the use of applied colors leaves no doubt that they are the same painter personality.

His production in Boeotia is far greater than that in Athens, with over 60 vases attributed to him, the majority of which are Alabastra . Here, too, he has a great preference for the depiction of sirens. The vessels were probably all found in Greece itself, most of them in Boeotia.

literature

  • John D. Beazley : Attic Black-figure Vase-painters , Oxford 1956, pp. 21-23. 680.
  • John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic Black-figure Vase-painters and to Attic Red-figure Vase-painters , Oxford 1971, p. 14.
  • 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. 22.
  • Karl Kilinski II: Boeotian black figure vase painting of the archaic period , Mainz 1990, pp. 7-13.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lekanis. (No longer available online.) In: Online Collection. Selection from the Daphne database . Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on May 2, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / skd-online-collection.skd.museum
personal data
SURNAME Painter of the Dresden Lekanis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek Attic vase painter (around 580 BC – 570 BC)
DATE OF BIRTH before 580 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 570 BC Chr.