Painter of Berlin 2457
The painter from Berlin 2457 (active around 430-420 BC) was a Greek vase painter of the red-figure style. Him, two white-ground lekythoi depicting a grave scene in Berlin antiquities collection assigned: The eponymous lecythus F 2457 and the Lekythos F 2458. Another befindlicher also in Berlin lecythus, F 2465, also with a grave scene, it is stylistically very close, was but surely painted by a copycat. The painter from Berlin 2457 was probably active in the circle of the woman painter , whose ornaments are very similar; In his coloring and the emotions of the figures, however, the painter from Berlin 2457 does not come close to this.
literature
- John D. Beazley : Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, Vol. 2 . Hacker Art Books, New York 1984, p. 1245, ISBN 0-87817-289-0 (unaltered reprint of the Oxford 1963 edition).
- Irma Wehgartner (arrangement): Berlin, Antikensammlung, formerly Antiquarium, Vol. 8 ( Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum / Germany; Vol. 62). Beck, Munich 1991, plates 27-28, ISBN 3-406-35237-5 .
- John H. Oakley : Picturing death in classical Athens. The evidence of the white lekythoi (Cambridge studies in classical art and iconography). University Press, Cambridge 2004, ISBN 0-521-82016-2 .
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| SURNAME | Painter of Berlin 2457 |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek vase painter of the red-figure style |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr. |