Phrynos (potter)

Phrynos was a Greek potter who worked in Athens approx. 560-545 BC. He belongs to the so-called minor masters .

Three signed rim shells are known from him :

• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Inv. 03.855
• London, British Museum Inv. 1867.5-8.962 (B 424)
• Torgiano, Museo del Vino di Torgiano Inv. A 15

The three vases seem to have been painted by the same painter, the so-called Phrynos painter , to whom other vases can be ascribed. The potter Phrynos is likely to have worked closely with the potters Archikles and Glaukytes , as the profile of the bowl painted by the Phrynos painter and probably made by Phrynos in Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum Inv. 8192 almost exactly the same as the famous bowl signed by Archikles and Glaukytes in Munich; State Antikensammlungen Inv. 2243. Other connections can also be made.

literature

• Oliver S. Tonks: A New Kalos Artist: Phrynos. In: American Journal of Archeology 9, 1905, pp. 288-293.
• John D. Beazley : Attic Black-figure Vase-painters , Oxford 1956, p. 168.
• John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters , Oxford 1971, pp. 70-71.
• Joan Tarlow Haldenstein: Little master cups. Studies in 6th century Attic black-figure vase painting , Dissertation University of Cincinnati, 1975, pp. 20-32.
• Hermann AG Brijder: A band-cup by the Phrynos Painter in Amsterdam. In: M. Gnade (Ed.): Stips votiva. Papers presented to Conrad Michael Stibbe, Amsterdam 1991, pp. 21–30.
• Peter Heesen: Phrynos (I). In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 2: L-Z. Addendum A – K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-11414-1 , p. 256.