Pistoxenos painter
The as Pistoxenos Painter called Greek vase painter of the early classical period was an important Attic vase painter of the red-figure style . His work can be traced back to the time from 480 to 460 BC. To date.
He received his provisional names for a painted by him and by the potter Pistoxenos signed today in Schwerin kept Skyphos , the music lessons of Iphicles at Linos and Hercules with his Thracian shows tattooed servant Geropso. He began his training with the antiphon painter in the workshop of Euphronios . Here he specialized in bowls , which he painted in red-figure style. There are also some white-ground bowls, which are among his best works.
The most important motifs in his work are horses, warriors and Thiasos pictures. He was one of the first painters to use the new four-color technique , which was characterized by varnish , opaque colors and, in some cases, gilding. This painting is often reminiscent of monumental painting. In his later works, the artist even refrained from using the relief line . There is also a certain closeness to the Penthesilea painter . Kalos names in the Pistoxenos painter are Lysis, Glaukon and Megakles.
literature
- Hans Diepolder : The Pistoxenos painter (= Winckelmann program of the Archaeological Society of Berlin 110). De Gruyter, Berlin 1954.
- John D. Beazley : Attic Red-figure Vase-painters . 2nd edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1963, pp. 859-865. 1672-1673.
- John D. Beazley: Paralipomena . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, pp. 425-426.
- Elke Böhr : Pistoxenos painter. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 9, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01479-7 , Sp. 1050 f.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pistoxenos painter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek vase painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th century BC Chr. |