Pistoxenos painter

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Red-figure bowl. Orvieto, Museo Claudio Faina
Apollo and his raven, white-ground bowl, Delphi, Museum 8140

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.

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

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  1. State Museum Schwerin 708 .