Timiades painter
Neoptolemus sacrifices Polyxena; Tyrrhenian amphora, around 570/50 BC Chr.
The Timiades Painter is an Attic vase painter of the black-figure style . His creative period is in the second quarter of the 6th century BC. BC.
The Timiades painter is best known for his drawings on Tyrrhenian amphorae . The rooster monsters he created are particularly striking. His many inscriptions on the people and mythical figures he depicts are also striking. On a Tyrrhenian amphora, for example, he depicts Heracles fighting the Amazons , and on another the sacrifice of Polyxena . He belongs to the Tyrrhenian group .
literature
- John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1956, pp. 94-106.
- 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. 41.
- Jeroen Kluiver: The Tyrrhenian Group of Black-figure Vases. From the Athenian Kerameikos to the Tombs of South Etruria. Amsterdam 2003, ISBN 90-72067-10-X
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Timiades painter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Attic black-figure vase painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th century BC BC or 6th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr. |