Circle of the Euergides Painter

Naked youth draws wine from a crater ; Bowl , around 520/10 BC Chr., Louvre G 98

As a radius of Euergides Painter ( English Circle of the Euergides Painter ) is a group of ancient Greek vases referred to the Euergides painter will associated, however, being attributed without this itself. The works are made towards the end of the 6th century BC. Dated.

Alabastron of the group of the Paidikos-Alabastra: woman seated in a chair offers a drink from an oinochoe at an altar; Antikensammlung of the University of Tübingen; around 510/500 BC Chr.

In the second, heavily revised and expanded edition of his basic standard work on red -figure vase painting , Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters , John D. Beazley devoted the seventh chapter to the works of the Euergides Painter and those around him. First he performed the signed works of the potter Euergides , after whom the vase painter is named. The following is a list of the works that were directly assigned to the Euergides painter. Beazley created an interlocking system of types of attribution in his research. For example, in addition to direct ascriptions, there were also other ascriptions that defined a certain form of connection. For example, he defined student-teacher relationships, collected works by imitators or defined entire groups of artists and, in rare cases, workshop contexts. Another element vases, which he called in the manner of a vase painter, so here in the way of Euergides Painter English manner of the Euergides Painter - by other researchers is also provided in the form near the Euergides painter english near the Euergides Painter expanded - saw created without them probably actually being created by it. Often behind this is the assumption that these were less talented painters from a workshop who copied the master painters. Another possibility is that in serial production, different quality levels occurred or different painters worked together. Especially with the Euergides painter, such vases have been handed down in large numbers that Beazley and other vase researchers recognized an independent circle here, which however did not belong together so closely to meet Beazley's definition of an artist group.

Two semi-cylindrical stands in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, probably painted by the Euergides painter or a painter close to him: left 1980.537, right 65.11.14

In addition to these vases in the manner of or close to them , there are other vases associated with them. The works of the Paidikos-Alabastra group , which are both black-figure / white-ground and red-figure, are particularly problematic . Two in particular that are ascribed to the Pasiades painter are very close to those of the Euergides painter. Because of these connections, the potters Pasiades and Paidikos also come to this group. According to Beazley, about half a dozen vases combine both elements of the Euergides painter and elements of the work of the Epeleios painter . The Euergides painter already has a mechanical reproduction of his motifs; the works from his environment meet this definition even more. According to Beazley, the group from Akropolis 96 , the painter from Bologna 433 and the group from Montauban 11 are to be settled as independent artistic personalities or group, but nevertheless in the environment of the Euergides painter . While Beazley assigned about 150 works to the Euergides Painter, the number of the perimeter is somewhat lower and, depending on the definition of the composition of the perimeter, could include up to 100 vases and fragments.

Other similar environments that Beazley or other researchers recognized in the red-figure ceramists of the late Archaic era are the circle of the Nikosthenes painter , the Syleus sequence and the extremely problematic Syriskos group .

Web links

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

(collected in the category together with the Euergides painter)

literature

• John D. Beazley : Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², pp. 87-106.
• John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters. 2nd edition, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, pp. 330, 509.
• 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. 63, 68-69.
• Martin Robertson : The Art of Vase-painting in Classical Athens. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992, ISBN 0-521-330-10-6 , pp. 38, 52-57, 268.

Remarks

1. ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art, inventory number 1980.537 and 65.11.14; Entry in the Beazley Archive and the Metropolitan Museum's online catalog for 1980.537 as well as the Beazley Archive and the MET's catalog for November 65, 2014