Thalia painter

The Thalia Painter was a Greek vase painter who worked towards the end of the 6th century BC. Chr. In Athens worked.


Name vase of the Thalia painter in Berlin depicting a four-person orgy, on the left the fully restored bowl, on the right the tondo in detail.

The Thalia painter was one of the relatively early painters of red-figure bowls . His creative period dates from around 530 to 520 or 510 BC. BC. The name of the Thalia painter has not been passed down, which is why John D. Beazley , who recognized and defined his artistic handwriting within the large body of ancient painted ceramics , made it distinguishable with an emergency name . He received this emergency name after his name vase in the Berlin Collection of Antiquities . It is considered his best work and shows in the tondo (interior) of the bowl an orgy of two men and two hetaerae . Several of his pictures can be found on bowls signed by the potter Kachrylion , and he also worked with the master painter Oltos . The Thalia painter himself is considered to be a secondary painter at best. Its qualitative abilities are assessed differently in research. John Boardman sees him as a good artist, while Martin Robertson, apart from the Berlin vase, classifies the painter's work as rather poor. The Thalia painter also takes special care on the Berlin bowl and creates the curls of hair in his figures in relief, so they stand out from the smooth bowl bottom. Here he also experiments with unusual arrangements of figures. Beazley even brings this best work of the painter into artistic proximity to the works of Euphronios , who together with his colleagues in the pioneer group explored the possibilities of the still new style on larger vases at this time.

The vase painter Peithinos , known for a long time only from one single but outstanding vase in Berlin , found a second fragmented, signed bowl a long time later, the design of which is very reminiscent of the Thalia painter. John D. Beazley stated that without the signature he would not have made any connection between the two works of Peithinos. Nevertheless, in his first edition of his Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters , published in 1942, he had already established a connection between the then single known Peithinos bowl and some of the works of the Thalia painter. Nevertheless, he refrained from defining both as a painter personality. It is still possible that the Thalia painter and Peithinos are identical.

literature

John D. Beazley : Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², number 113.
John Boardman : Red-Figure Vases from Athens. The archaic time (= cultural history of the ancient world . Volume 4). 4th edition. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-0234-7 , pp. 69-70.
Martin Robertson : The Art of Vase-painting in Classical Athens. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992, ISBN 0-521-330-10-6 , p. 40.
Guy Hedreen : The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece. Art, Poetry, and Subjectivity. Cambridge University Press, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1107118256 , pp. 288-290.

Web links

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

Entry in the Union List of Artist Names Online (English)
Works by the Thalia painter in the online catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City

Remarks

^ Antikensammlung Berlin, inventory number VI 3251; ; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 113.7; Adolf Greifenhagen : Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Germany 21, Berlin, Antiquarium 3, 19f., Pl. 122.1.5, 134.2, CH-Beck, Munich 1962.
^ Kylix, Zecher and Hetaera - Thalia painter. Retrieved April 11, 2020 .
↑ on the Peithinos bowl see: Berlin F 2279 (vase). Retrieved April 11, 2020 . and Attic red-figure bowl of Peithinos in the Arachne archaeological database

↑ John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1943, p. 81.

↑ on the connection Euphronios - Peithinos - Thalia painter see: Martin Robertson: The Art of Vase-painting in Classical Athens. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992, ISBN 0-521-330-10-6 , p. 40. and Guy Hedreen: The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece. Art, Poetry, and Subjectivity. Cambridge University Press, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1107118256 , pp. 288-290.

personal data
SURNAME	Thalia painter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Thalia painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek vase painter of the red-figure style
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.

[1] Antikensammlung Berlin, inventory number VI 3251; ; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 113.7; Adolf Greifenhagen : Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Germany 21, Berlin, Antiquarium 3, 19f., Pl. 122.1.5, 134.2, CH-Beck, Munich 1962.

[2] Kylix, Zecher and Hetaera - Thalia painter. Retrieved April 11, 2020 .

[3] the Peithinos bowl see: Berlin F 2279 (vase). Retrieved April 11, 2020 . and Attic red-figure bowl of Peithinos in the Arachne archaeological database

[4] John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1943, p. 81.

[5] the connection Euphronios - Peithinos - Thalia painter see: Martin Robertson: The Art of Vase-painting in Classical Athens. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992, ISBN 0-521-330-10-6 , p. 40. and Guy Hedreen: The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece. Art, Poetry, and Subjectivity. Cambridge University Press, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1107118256 , pp. 288-290.