Polos painter

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Sirens , sphinxes and animals on a neck amphora by the Polos painter, around 600–575 BC Chr., Paris, Louvre E 814
Sirens on a Lekane by the Polos Painter, around 600–575 BC Chr., Paris, Louvre CA 3059

The Polos painter was a vase painter of the Attic black-figure style. His works are dated from around 575 to 565 BC. Dated.

The Polos painter is considered a painter with a pronounced handwriting, which does not rise above the artistic mediocrity. Stylistically, it is reminiscent of the Ragusa group, which used to be based on Corinthian vase painting . He was particularly productive. He decorated most of his vases with “degenerate animal friezes” ( John Boardman ). He got his emergency name from the crosshatched polos crowns with which he decorated the women, animals and sirens he painted . Today over 100 vases and fragments are assigned to him. His works were widespread in the Greek world, especially among more undemanding buyers: from Athens and Attica to southern Italy, Spain, Cyrenaica , Egypt to Asia Minor. He decorated all the forms of vessels that were common at the time, but preferred plates and lekanids .

Works (selection)

  • Paris, Louvre
CA 3059 Lekane
Cp 10501 fragment of an abdominal amphora
  • Reading, Ure Museum
14.9.82 Fragment of a painted terracotta
14.9.83 Fragment of a lekanis
  • San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums: 1925.364 Skyphos

literature

  • John D. Beazley : Attic Black-figure Vase-painters . Oxford 1956, pp. 43-49. 708
  • A. Arribas; G. Trías: Un vaso del Pintor del Polos de Ampurias. In: Archivo español de arqueología 34 , 1961, pp. 168–177.
  • John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters , Oxford 1971, pp. 20-22.
  • Maria Grazia Costagli Marzi: Il cratere del Pittore del Polos nel Museo Archeologico di Firenze. In: Archaeologica. Scritti in onore di Aldo Neppi Modona , Florence 1975, pp. 173-181.
  • John Boardman : Black-Figure Vases from Athens. A handbook (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 1). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9 , p. 22.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peintre du Polos Amphore à col à figures noires , on cartelfr.louvre.fr, accessed on November 27, 2018
  2. ↑ Attic black figure lekane , on lkws1.rdg.ac.uk, accessed on November 27, 2018
  3. ↑ Attic black figure; added color; incised lekanis fragment , on lkws1.rdg.ac.uk, accessed November 27, 2018
  4. ↑ Polos Painter, artist Greek Black-Figure Skyphos, mid 6th century BC ( Memento from September 26, 2007 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Polos painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek vase painter of the Attic black-figure style
DATE OF BIRTH 7th century BC BC or 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: after 565 BC Chr.