Priam Painter
The Priam Painter was a vase painter of the Attic - black- period.
The Priam painter is considered to be one of the better and also quite productive vase painters of the black-figure style in Athens at the end of the 6th century BC. Some researchers value it so high in quality that they see connections between the Priam painter and the Antimenes painter or the Leagros group . His choice of topics is rather modest, but he reproduces his topics in detail, with a lot of imagination and original compositional skills. He often shows chariot races with Athena and Heracles as well as scenes at public fountain houses. These pictures show a certain sympathy for the ruling Peisistratides . He thus reproduces myths that the Peisistratides particularly valued and used for legitimation; with the fountain houses he shows one of their achievements that they performed for Athens. The vases must therefore still be shortly before the expulsion of the Peisistratids from Athens in 510 BC. Have been painted. Stylistically, the Rycroft painter is close to the Priam painter .
literature
- John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1956
- John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters . Oxford 1971.
- 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. 123f.
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| SURNAME | Priam Painter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Attic black-figure vase painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 6th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr. |