Pythocles painter

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The Pythocles Painter was a Greek vase painter who worked in the last third of the 6th century BC. Chr. In Athens worked.

Oinochoe in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Oinochoe in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Oinochoe in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Pythocles Painter is an early representative of red-figure vase painting . John D. Beazley recognized the individual style of the artisan among the tens of thousands of preserved vases and shards of the red-figure Attic style and summarized his works. Beazley hesitantly assigned the Pythocles painter to the “ pioneering group ” of the red-figure style, but was not sure whether this assignment really fits or whether he belongs to the late Archaic painters of larger vases. Beazley certainly ascribed two amphorae to the Pythocles Painter, but was not sure about two other vases. In addition, a fifth vase, a drinking bowl at the art market and a sixth oinochoe, signed by the potter Euthymides , in the Metropolitan Museum of Art , were later ascribed to him. He got his emergency name from an inscription , his favorite name Pythocles on one of the amphorae in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens .

List of works

Beazley recognized the first two vases as the painter's central, safe work, the two following vases as unsafe, reminiscent of this one. The fifth vase was attributed by an unknown person, the sixth by Dyfri Williams :

  1. Belly amphora in the Panathenaic form , National Archaeological Museum , Athens , inventory number 1989 (CC 1169), found in Aegina , motif: A-side: Athena , B-side: Boxer
  2. Belly amphora (fragmented), National Archaeological Museum, Athens, inventory number 1688 (CC 1170), found in Aegina, motif: A-side: Athena, B-side: lost
  3. Drinking bowl , Museo Gregoriano Etrusco , Vatican City , inventory number 573 (16579), found in Cerveteri , motif: A-side: Iliupersis - Aeneas wears anchises and other fleeing Trojans, some in oriental clothing, B-side: Heracles and Apollo are fighting over the tripod as well as Athena and Artemis , I : Symposium scene : man and woman lie together on a couch at the symposium , she plays a flute, he Kottabos and urinates in an oinochoe
  4. Skyphos , Antikensammlung , Berlin , inventory number 2318, found in Vulci , motif: A-side: Eos carries Memnon away, plus Hermes and another goddess, B-side: Heracles and Apollon fight over the tripod and other fleeing Trojans, some in oriental style Clothing, B-side: Heracles and Apollo fight over the tripod, as well as Athena and Artemis
  5. Drinking bowl, private collection (previously Basel, Münzen und Medalen-AG, auction 1975), motif: A / B sides undecorated, tondo: satyr with drinking horns
  6. Oinochoe (fragmented), Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City , inventory number 1981.11.9, around 520/10 BC. Chr., Motive: judgment of Paris

literature

  • John D. Beazley : Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², p. 36.
  • John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters. 2nd edition, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, p. 325.

Web links

Commons : Pythocles Painter  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mary B. Moore also considers an attribution to the Sosias painter possible: Mary B. Moore: Attic Red-Figured and White-Ground Pottery. In: The Athenian Agora 30, 1997, pp. Iii-ix + xi-xviii + 1-3 + 5-77 + 79-357 + 359-367 + 369-387 + 389-391 + 393-399 + 401-419 .
  2. ↑ John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², p. 36.1; Entry on the Beazley Archive website
  3. ↑ John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², p. 36.2; Entry on the Beazley Archive website
  4. ↑ John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², p. 37; Entry on the Beazley Archive website
  5. ^ Adolf Greifenhagen : Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Germany  22, Berlin 3 (1988), p. 24, plates 140.1-6, 143.3; Entry on the Beazley Archive website
  6. ^ Entry on the Beazley Archive website
  7. ^ Dyfri Williams: Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum , Volume 5, 1991, p. 62, note 19; Entry in the online catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art


personal data
SURNAME Pythocles painter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pythocles painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.