Pholoe Painter

Name vase: Heracles, Pholos and Centaurs in the cave of Pholos

The Pholoe Painter was a provisional names designated ancient Greek vase painter who works in its Corinthian - black-style decorated. He worked during the Middle Corinthian phase of the style (about 600 to 575 BC). The Pholoe Painter specialized in decorating skyphoi . It is named after a skyphos that shows Heracles in the cave of the Centaur Pholos on Mount Pholoe, who is fighting off the attack of several other Centaurs . The work is dated around the year 580 BC. Dated. The vase found in Corinth and acquired in 1884 is now in the Louvre in Paris .

literature

Thomas Mannack : Greek vase painting. An introduction . Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1743-2 , p. 101.

Individual evidence

↑ Inventory number MNC 677 (L 63).

personal data
SURNAME	Pholoe Painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Corinthian vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH	7th century BC BC or 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	6th century BC Chr.

[1] Inventory number MNC 677 (L 63).