Mannerists (vase painting)

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Rape of Thetis by Peleus , Hydria of the Pig Painter, around 470 BC Chr.
Heracles fights Busiris , pelike of the Pan Painter, around 470 BC. Chr.

As mannerists is known in archaeological research a large group of Attic - red-figure vase painters that are due to their ornamented painting duly recognized in this group.

The Mannerist group consisted of more than 15 artists. They preferred colonette craters , hydria and pelicas as image carriers . Their creative period is from 480 BC. Until almost the end of the 5th century BC. BC. It is characteristic of them that they have retained elements of the black-figure vase painting, which was almost superseded by red-figure painting at this time . Her figures appear overly long, have small heads, the folds of the robes fall down like a staircase, the picture frames are decorated with ornaments of the black-figure style. The motifs are also based on older picture themes. For example, Achilles and Ajax are shown playing a board game, a popular motif of the black-figure era, when the painter Exekias showed this scene several times. The figures appear stiff and rigid in their posture; they gesticulate as if they were using sign language; especially the hand position often has a theatrical effect. Komos and symposium scenes are particularly popular . In the second generation of Mannerists, domestic scenes were particularly popular due to the influence of other contemporary painters of the red-figure style. Sometimes mannerists also showed rare pictures, such as the madness of Salmoneus , which was shown here for the only time in the vase painting.

The earliest representatives of the style in the period between 480 and 450 BC. Worked in the workshop of the potter Myson . The most important artist was the Pan Painter . Then there are the Pig Painter , the Leningrad Painter and the Agrigento Painter . The middle phase, around 450 to 425 BC. Chr., Is shaped by artists from the seven painters Nausicaa-Hephaistos group . Leading artists were the two painters who gave the group its name: the Nausicaa painter and the Hephaestus painter . The last significant artists at the end of the style towards the end of the 5th century are the Academy Painter and the Painter of Athens 1183 .

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