Verdelis painter

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Verdelis painter is the emergency name of a late geometric - Argive vase painter. He was active between 750 and 690 BC. Chr.

It is named after the archaeologist Nikolaos Verdelis , who found the vases attributed to the Verdelis painter during excavations in Tiryns and published them for the first time. Four vases are certainly attributed to him, including a kantharos and three beakers. The painting is based on the same pattern on all four pieces, in which a field with figurative representations is framed by two smaller fields with ornaments. A man is shown in the middle with horses on both sides. Since the vases are small, the horses are designed in a very reduced form: the body is almost rectangular, the neck is only indicated as an arch and the legs and the tail are only shown with short lines, with the joints on the legs are marked.

By Paul Courbin and John Nicolas Coldstream several other vases with Verdelis painters have been associated, in particular due to the fact reduced to-find miniature versions of horses.

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ Nikolaos M. Verdelis: New geometric graves in Tiryns . In: Communications of the German Archaeological Institute, Athens Department , Volume 78 (1963), pp. 1–62.
  2. ^ Paul Courbin: La céramique géométrique de l'Argolide . Boccard, Paris 1966; John Nicolas Coldstream: Greek Geometric Pottery: a Survey of Ten Local Styles and their Chronology. Phoenix Press, Bristol 2008
personal data
SURNAME Verdelis painter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Verdeli's painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argive vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 8th century BC BC or 7th century BC Chr.