Painter of London B76

Achilles and Troilos on a hydria , today in the Metropolitan Museum of Art , inventory number 45.11.2, around 560/50 BC. Chr.

The Painter of London B 76 is a modern provisional names designated Attic v vase painters of the middle third of the 6th century. Chr.

The painter from London B 76 is stylistically close to the Burgon group . Like the Camtar painter or Sophilos , he is one of the few vase painters who uses red instead of black paint to label the figures. He uses animal and plant patterns that still look old-fashioned, but his drawings, some of which are executed with bold colors, are reminiscent of painters like Lydos . He mainly recreates incidents from the Trojan saga. With the painter from London B 76 it becomes evident that the form of representation changed to Attic black-figure vase painting . More and more innovations and changes were asked for, real masters in their field strived for innovations. The painter from London B 76, for example, breaks away from certain conventions in the representation of mythological scenes. A heroic scene of the Trojan War is only recognizable as such in his work because he inscribed his frontal representations in this way.

literature

John D. Beazley : Attic Black-figure Vase-painters . Oxford 1956, pp. 85-88.
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 , pp. 39-40.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Painter of London B76
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	6th century BC Chr.