White jackets painter

A-side of a large volute with mask handles: Hades and Persephone are seated in the palace, outside on the left is Heracles ' wife , Megara , with her two sons, underneath a woman with a torch, possibly Hecate , on the right Hermes with one Hydria, including Orpheus with a kithara , under the palace two Danaids are depicted; around 320 BC Chr .; Kiel Collection of Antiquities .

An Apulian vase painter of the red-figure style is referred to as a white jacket painter , also a painter of the white hoods ( English White Saccos Painter ) . The artist, named after his preference for depicting women with white hoods (jackets) , was active in the period between 320 and 310 BC. Active. He was one of the particularly productive artisans of his time; a three-digit number of vases could be assigned to him based on stylistic comparisons.

The White Jackets painter was probably a student and successor of the Baltimore painter . The connection was so close that some of the vases from the early work of the White Blazer painter were initially ascribed to the Baltimore painter. Themes and scenes as well as ornaments show strong similarities, while the actual figure drawings differ more from one another. Like the Baltimore painter, the white jackets painter also liked to decorate large hydrangeas with M-shaped handles. Even if he did not reach the class of his teacher, he is still considered one of the last great masters of late Apulian red-figure vase painting. Direct students are not assigned to the painter, the later Virginia Exhibition painter is still strongly reminiscent of the White Jacket painter , but was probably a student of the painter from Berlin F 3383 .

Oinochoe with a lid from the circle of the White-Sakkos-Painter , the depiction has not yet been interpreted; Kiel Collection of Antiquities.

The white jackets painter decorated both large vases, including amphorae , volute craters and loutrophores , as well as smaller vase shapes. He often shows mythological themes on the front, such as the kidnapping of Chrysippus , Pelops and Hippodameia and Hades with Persephone . Numerous vases are known for which a second vase painter worked alongside the white jacket painter . On a loutrophore, a frieze, which was decorated with fish by the Sansone painter , separates two picture fields. However, the White Jackets Painter and the Sansone Painter, who is known for his depictions of fish, may be identical. The large vases repeatedly show a naïskos , sometimes with one, but sometimes with up to four people in the temple. The back of Naïskosvasen was usually decorated with women's heads in white jackets. These female heads connect the painter's works with those of the White-Sakkos-Kantharos group , which were probably created in the same workshop at the same time. On the smaller vases with figurative representations there are mostly erots , youths, niks or women. Vases of the workshop with such motifs, dated later, belong to the Stuttgart group and are probably not works by the white jacket painter . Carriages are often shown on kantharoi and oinochoen with two fields of view. Not all of these works can be ascribed to the White Sakkos painter , many of these works belong to his workshop and are grouped under the name of the Chariot Group .

In 1912, several vases by the white jacket painter were found in the Hypogeum Varrese in Canosa , with brightly painted relief heads attached to the upper handle. These point to the later Canosiner pottery . A large number of Kantharoi also found there belong, like the works of the Stuttgart Group and the Chariot Group, to the White Sakkos Group .

literature

• Arthur D. Trendall : The red-figured vases of Apulia , Vol. 2. Late Apulian. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1982, pp. 958-978.
• Arthur Dale Trendall, Alexander Cambitoglou : First supplement to the red-figured vases of Apulia. (= University of London. Institute of Classical Studies. Bulletin supplement , 42), London 1983, pp. 181-188.
• Arthur Dale Trendall, Alexander Cambitoglou: Second supplement to the red-figured vases of Apulia. Vol. 2 (= University of London. Institute of Classical Studies. Bulletin supplement , 60), London 1992, pp. 345-363.
• Arthur Dale 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 , pp. 118-121.
• Konrad Schauenburg : To the painter of the White Hoods. In: Archäologischer Anzeiger 1994, pp. 507-541.

Web links

Commons : White Jackets Painter  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Portrait on the website of the J. Paul Getty Museum
• Portrait on the website of the British Museum