Phineus painter

Neck amphora depicting a rider, around 520 BC. Chr .; J. Paul Getty Museum .

The emergency name Phineus painter is a Greek vase painter who is considered to be one of the two main representatives of Chalcidian vase painting and whose works date from between 540 and 520 BC. BC (according to another dating between 530 and 510 BC).

Eye bowl, around 520 BC Chr .; J. Paul Getty Museum

The Phineus painter is next to the inscription painter , whom he follows chronologically, the second main master of Chalcidian vase painting. Possibly he took over the workshop of the inscription painter , who was probably also his trainer. It can therefore be assumed that he was also the potter, not just the vase painter, in his workshop. It got its emergency name after an eye bowl from the antique collection of the Martin von Wagner Museum in Würzburg , on whose inner frieze the resting Phineus , the Boreads and the harpies as well as the wagon train of Dionysus and Ariadne can be seen.

Unlike his predecessor, the Phineus painter shows only a few mythical images, including the return of Hephaestus to Olympus and Tydeus and Polynices in Argos . Friezes of animals and mythical creatures are predominant, as are symmetrical animal images with central ornaments, as well as images of men, women, young men and riders in various combinations. The artist's style is characterized by great elegance. His pictures, with which he mainly decorated eye cups and neck amphorae , but also hydria , oinochoa and skyphoi , reveal a strong ionic influence. The eye cups, which he decorated with animal and human ears, look very mask-like and are often reminiscent of satyrs . His animal friezes are in an orientalizing tradition, have been out of date for around 150 years and are also the last notable pictures of this kind. His works were found primarily in Vulci , Rhegion and Lokroi Epizephyrioi .

The works of the Phineus Painter are not always easy to separate from those of the group of Phineus bowls close to him . Together the painters created around 160 preserved vases and are responsible for a large part of the approximately 600 preserved Chalcidian vases. With the Phineus painter, after about 50 years, Chalcidian vase painting ended as abruptly as it appeared. It is possible that one or two pottery painters of the style emigrated to Etruria and founded pseudo-Chalcidian vase painting there .

literature

Andreas Rumpf : Chalcidian vases. de Gruyter, Berlin 1927, pp. 104-115.
Mario Iozzo : Ceramica “Calcidese”. Nuovi documenti e problemi riproposti . Rome 1994, pp. 67-81.
Matthias Steinhart : Phineus painter. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 9, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01479-7 , Sp. 903.
John Boardman : Early Greek Vase Painting. 11th - 6th Century BC. A Handbook (= World of Art ). Thames and Hudson, London 1998, ISBN 0-500-20309-1 , pp. 217-219.
Thomas Mannack : Greek vase painting. An introduction . Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1743-2 , p. 131.

Web links

Commons : Phineus Painter - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

The Phineus Painter at the J. Paul Getty Museum (English)
The Phineus Painter at the British Museum (English)

Remarks

↑ inventory number L 164; Phineus bowl near Perseus .

personal data
SURNAME	Phineus painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek vase painter of Chalcidian vase painting
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	6th century BC Chr.

[1] ventory number L 164; Phineus bowl near Perseus .