Truro Pelike Painter

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A Truro-Pelike painter is an Apulian vase painter from the third quarter of the 4th century BC. Chr. Designated.

The Truro-Pelike painter got his emergency name from a pelike assigned to him , which is in a collection in Truro . The Darius underworld workshop in which he worked is considered a manufacture with the highest quality work of red-figure Apulian vases of the corresponding time. He belongs to a group of artists in the workshop, which also includes the Lucera Painter and the Haifa Painter , whose vases on the main page usually show young men, satyrs or Eros in the company of a woman. In the case of larger vases, up to three cloak boys can be represented.

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Individual evidence

  1. Luca Giuliani : tragedy, grief and consolation. Picture vases for an Apulian funeral , Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage 1995 p. 23