Sappho painter

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A sappho painter is an Attic vase painter who worked in the black-figure style around 510 to 490 BC. Was active in Athens . It was named after a representation of the poet Sappho on a kalpis , the poet is by inscription in

Prosthesis on a grave pinax. Found in Athens, now in Paris, Louvre MNB 905

The Sappho painter was, like his workshop mate , the Diosphos painter , a successor to the Edinburgh painter . He mainly decorated small lekyths and other small vessels, only a few large vessels such as loutrophores , grave pinakes and epinetra . The largest known vessel decorated by him is a Kolonnettenkrater .

Although this was already dominant in his time, he did not work with the red-figure technique, but with the black-figure and above all with the white-ground technique. To do this, he occasionally used the new Six technology . He often showed funeral scenes. He showed it on several grave pinakes, on loutrophores and on a rare basket handle oinochoe . His pictures give a good impression of the Attic funeral rites of his time ( Prothesis , Ekphora ). The only depiction of a burial place on an antique vase comes from him, the basket handle shows a coffin. He maintains the frieze of buds on the shoulder of his lekyths following the Edinburgh painter. His figures are lively and mostly fleeting. Indecipherable inscriptions on his vases are known several times; however, as other inscriptions show, he was probably not illiterate. The inscriptions apparently had a more decorative effect.

A special form of the small lekythos is his or was invented for him. The tapering body of the vessel is strongly curved inwards above the foot, sometimes there are lions on the shoulder. These vases are assigned to the Little Lion class .

literature

  • Emilie Haspels : Attic black-figured lekythoi (= École française d'Athènes. Travaux et Mémoires. Volume 4). Boccard, Paris 1936, pp. 94-130. 225-241. 368-369.
  • John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1956, pp. 507-508. 702
  • John D. Beazley: Paralipomena . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, pp. 246-247.
  • 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. 161.
  • Heide Mommsen : Sappho painter. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 11, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01481-9 , column 49 f.
  • Sabine Weber: Sappho and Diosphos painter. Studies on the latest Attic black-figure ceramics . Dissertation Mainz 2000.

Web links

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

Remarks

  1. ^ Warsaw , National Museum Inv. 142333.
  2. ^ Bowdoin College Museum of Art 1984.23.
personal data
SURNAME Sappho painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Attic black-figure vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC Chr.