Xenocles painter
The Xenocles Painter is an Attic vase painter from the middle of the 6th century BC. Chr.
Xenocles painter is the emergency name of a Greek vase painter. He was named after the potter Xenocles , whose vases he painted, possibly he is identical to the potter. As an artist he is less good than other comparable painters like Tleson . It is characteristic of him that his peripheral bowls , which he painted almost in the manner of Siana bowls , were crammed with figures.
literature
- John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1956, pp. 184-186.
- 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. 67.
- Rolf Blatter: Xenocles (I). In: Rainer Vollkommer (editor): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 2: L-Z. Addendum A – K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-11414-1 , p. 520.
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SURNAME | Xenocles painter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Attic 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. |