Vatican Painter 309

Herakles , Deïaneira and Nessos on the face of a hydria , around 575–550 BC Chr .; Louvre (E 803)

The Vatican Painter 309 was an Attic vase painter of the black-figure style who worked in the mid-6th century BC. Was active. The painter got his emergency name from a vase that is inventoried in the Vatican Museums as Vatican 309 .

The painter from Vatican 309 worked in the vicinity of the much better known vase painter Lydos and was probably active in his workshop. However, he is considered a less good artist. He was only active for a relatively short time and is considered to be rather old-fashioned. He mainly painted neck amphoras . He shared with Lydos and other painters from his circle, such as the painter from Louvre F 6 , that he drew pictures of animals, but above all that he still depicted these animal pictures on large vases in Athens at that time .

literature

• John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters , Oxford 1956, pp. 120-122.
• 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.

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