Worst painter

Worst Painter is the emergency name of an ancient Greek vase painter who worked at the end of the 5th / beginning of the 4th century BC. Was active.

Amphoriskus des Worst Painter, Paris, Louvre CA 1892

His vases, mostly small oinochoes and lekyths as well as two amphoriskoi , all come from the necropolises of Spina and Felsina ( Bologna ) , as far as the location is known .

The painter, who painted in the late red-figure style, got his name Worst Painter (= "worst painter") by John D. Beazley because of his bad painting style ("barbarous style"). Beazley counted him among the Attic vase painters , but already saw that a vase made of Spina, which corresponds entirely to this style, is Italian . However, the vases are so close to an Agrinion group of vases put together by Ian McPhee , which were created in north-west Greece under the influence of Puglia, that they should also belong to this local group.

literature

John D. Beazley : Attic red-figure vase-painters . 2nd edition, Oxford 1963, pp. 1353-1354.

Individual evidence

^ Ian McPhee: The Agrinion Group. In: Annual of the British School at Athens. Vol. 74, 1979, pp. 159-162.
^ John K. Papadopoulos: The Relocation of Potters and the Dissemination of Style. In: John H. Oakley , Olga Palagia (ed.): Athenian Potters and Painters II. Oxbow, Oxford 2009, ISBN 978-1-84217-350-3 , p. 206.

Web links

Commons : Worst Painter - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Worst painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH	5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	4th century BC Chr.

[1] Ian McPhee: The Agrinion Group. In: Annual of the British School at Athens. Vol. 74, 1979, pp. 159-162.

[2] John K. Papadopoulos: The Relocation of Potters and the Dissemination of Style. In: John H. Oakley , Olga Palagia (ed.): Athenian Potters and Painters II. Oxbow, Oxford 2009, ISBN 978-1-84217-350-3 , p. 206.