Mastos painter

Possibly a representation of Dionysus and Ariadne , around 520 BC. In the manner of the mastos painter

The Mastos painter was a provisional names designated Attic vase painter of the black-figure style towards the end of the 6th century. Chr.

The mastos painter was named after a mastos he painted ( mastos , Greek for breast , as the bowl-shaped vessel has the shape of a female breast) from the antique collection of the Martin von Wagner Museum in Würzburg . The Mastos painter belongs to a group of later black-figure vase painters who mainly decorated neck amphoras , abdominal amphorae of a newer type ( type A ), hydria and eye cups and whose most famous representative was the Andokides painter .

literature

John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters , Oxford 1956, p.
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. 115.

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personal data
SURNAME	Mastos painter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mastos Painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Attic vase painter of the black-figure style
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.