Scythes (vase painter)

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Komast on the tondo of a bilingual bowl from the Louvre , inscription: ΕΠΙΛΥΚΟΣ ΚΑΛΟΣ, Epilykos kalos , Epilykos is beautiful , around 510/500 BC Chr.

Scythes (Σκύθης, the Skythe ) was an Attic - red-figure and black-figure vase painter , whose creative period in the period between 520 and 505 BC. Is dated.

Scythes is considered a kind of loner in modern research, as his work is difficult to classify in the workshops and groups of painters. He signed on four bowls . About twenty more and two dinosaur stands were assigned to him on the basis of stylistic analyzes. His early works emerged only shortly after the invention of red-figure vase painting. In three bilingual works he shows his skills in the old black-figure style. Unusually, he shows red-figure pictures inside and black-figure pictures on a coral background on the outside . Both in the inside picture and on both sides of the outside picture he shows a single figure. Three of these bowls have survived. He belongs to the first generation of vase painters who specialized in bowls.

In his figure drawings, he portrays the characters in an exaggerated ugly or brutal manner, and in doing so deliberately pretends to be a comedian, even a satirist, contrary to the Greek norm. His faces in particular reveal an unusual sense of humor. Perhaps this marks him, as his name suggests, as a non-Athenian, even if he has mastered the artistic repertoire of the polis . If he wasn't a Skythe , his nickname probably denotes a certain extravagance or individuality. On the Acropolis there were two black-figure painted panels signed by a Scythian, who are believed to have come from the vase painter too.

He sometimes boasts the Kalos name Epilykos on his vases . The Pedieus painter also uses this name, which is why some researchers consider it the late Scythian. Even on a vase of Phintias just that is Epilykos shown as an athlete. Some of the vases were at times wrongly assigned to Epilykos as a painter. According to this Kalos name, Scythes belongs to the Epilykos class .

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  1. ↑ Acropolis Museum Guide (Athens 2015) ISBN 978-618-5120-01-6 , p. 168.

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SURNAME Scythes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Σκύθες
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Attic red-figure vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.