Painter from Louvre F6

Colonette Crater; Heracles fights with the Nemean lion; from Thespiai; around 550/540 BC Chr .; National Archaeological Museum of Athens

The painter of Louvre F 6 is an Attic vase painter of the black-figure style named with an emergency name , who lived in the middle of the 6th century BC. Was active.

The painter from Louvre F 6 worked in the vicinity of the much better known vase painter Lydos and was probably active in his workshop. His works are considered to be average in terms of craftsmanship and the choice of motifs as rather boring. He mainly painted novel, shouldered hydria , craters , especially colonic craters , and abdominal amphorae , which were reminiscent of the latest Corinthian craters and amphorae of this type. He decorated them with wide tongue patterns and blotchy ivy leaves, borrowed from Corinthian vase painting. What connects him with Lydos and other painters from his circle, such as the painter from Vatican 309 , is that he draws animal pictures, but above all that he still depicts these animal pictures on large vases in Athens at that time .

Works

• Paris, Louvre

Hydria F 6 (CA 3001) [1]

Colonette crater E 678 [2]

• Zimmermann Collection

Lekanis cover

literature

• John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters , Oxford 1956, pp. 123-129.
• JHC Kern: An Attic Neck-Amphora by the Painter of Louvre F 6 , in Oudheidkundige mededelingen 39, 1958, pp. 7-10.
• 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. 59.
• PJ Connor: Replicas in Greek vase-painting. The work of the Painter of Louvre F 6 , in BABesch 56, 1981, pp. 37-42.

Web links

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