Sotades (potter)
Two Ephebe follow a woman, Rhyton in the shape of a ram's head painted by the painter from Bologna 417 , around 470–460 BC. Chr.
Sotades was an Attic potter whose work at 460 / v 450th BC and who created a rich repertoire of vase shapes, but is particularly famous for his plastic vessels.
In his workshop the vessels were mostly painted by the so-called Sotades painter in a delicately breathed, lyrical style with red figures on a white background .
Works (selection)
- Plastic vessel of the Sotades, Cambridge , Fitzwilliam Museum
- two white-ground bowls in London, British Museum
- Kantharos with red figures in Gołuchów , Czartoryski Collection
- Fragment of a rhyton from Memphis , now in Boston, Museum of Fine Arts
literature
- Herbert Hoffmann: Sotades. Symbols of immortality on Greek vases . Oxford 1997. ISBN 0-19-815061-X .
Web links
Commons : Sotades - collection of images, videos and audio files
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sotades |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Attic potter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 460 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 450 BC Chr. |