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[German version] Attic red-figured vase painter of the transitional period between the late Archaic period and early Classical period (490/480-460/450 BC), who combined “late Archaic daintiness and early Classical grandeur” (Beazley). Named after a bell krater (Boston, MFA 10.185) depicting Pan amorously pursuing a shepherd. Highly productive and versatile, the PP painted a broad spectrum of forms, from kraters and amphorae to cups and lekythoi (Pottery, shapes and types of), including some white …

[German version] Attic vases from the transition period between black-figured and red-figured painting styles (last quarter of the 6th cent. BC); pictures in both painting styles are juxtaposed with each other. It was almost exclusively type A belly amphorae and cups ( Pottery, shapes and types of) that were painted as bilingual vases (BV). With belly amphorae both pictures occasionally show the same subject matter (e.g. the belly amphora of the  Andocides Painter in Munich [SA 2301] with a reclin…

[German version] (AP). Anonymous Attic vase painter of the late Archaic Age (530-515 BC), named after the potter Andocides, with whom he worked (five of the 17 vessels ascribed to him -- with the exception of three eye-bowls, all are big-bellied amphoras of the so-called model A -- are signed by Andocides). He is regarded as a pupil of  Execias and as inventor of  red-figured vase painting, for which his images belong to the earliest evidence; there are additionally, experiments with white-grounde…

[German version] Athenian Red Figure vase painter of the early Classical period (470-450 BC), named after a fragmentary kalyx krater (Rome, VG 909) with a circle of dancing women. According to Beazley [1], he was a representative of the “academic wing of early classic vase-painting”, whose best works are distinguished by “a quiet nobility”. He was a multifaceted painter who produced a large repertory of extremely varied shapes of pots and was the master of various (also white-ground) painting tech…

[German version] (Εὐθυμίδης; Euthymídēs) Attic red-figured vase painter of the late Archaic period (510-500 BC). An Athenian citizen, he included in his signature his father's name Polias, who is probably identical with the sculptor Pollias, known from ancient written sources. Alongside  Euphronius [2], with whom he was in artistic competition (cf. his well-known inscription ΗΟΣ ΟΥΔΕΠΟΤΕ ΕΥΦΡΟΝΙΟΣ on the amphora in Munich, SA 2307), E. was the most important painter within the ‘Pioneer’ group of ar…

[German version] A group of Attic lekythoi with white-grounded polychromatic dull-coloured painting from the time between 420 and 410 BC. According to the shape of the vessel, the ornamental decoration, painting technique and colours (red contour lines, blackish grey ornament drawing), they come from the same workshop as the lekythoi of the Reed Painter but are bigger than those and of significantly higher quality in the drawing of the figures. Beazley therefore separated them from the lekythoi of…

[German version] Pottery with a light-coloured, whitish slip containing kaolinite as a base for painting is known in the Geometric and Archaic Periods from various Greek landscapes (esp. Ionia, Laconia, Cyklades). But only in Athens did WGP develop into its own genre from 530/525 BC next to black-figured and red-figured pottery. The term WGP is therefore used almost exclusively in reference to Attic pottery. The light-coloured slip was probably intended to make the pottery appear more valuable, perhaps to elicit associations with ivory or marble. However, th…

[German version] [1] Town on the southern coast of Sicily This item can be found on the following maps: Sicily (Φιντιάς; Phintiás). Town on the southern coast of Sicily, modern Licata, founded in c. 280 BC by P., the tyrant of Acragas and settled by the residents of Gela driven out by the Mamertini (Diod. Sic. 22,2,2; 22,7,1); the inhabitants of P. therefore also continued to call themselves Gelṓioi (Γελῷοι, IG XIV 256-261; [1. 711 no. 588f.]). In 249 BC a Roman fleet was defeated at P. by the Carthaginians in connection with the 1st Punic War (Diod. Sic. 24,1,7…

(Εὐφρόνιος; Euphrónios). [German version] [1] Writer of Old Comedy Writer of Old Comedy who in 458 BC won the Great  Dionysia [1. test. 1. 2]. Neither titles nor fragments are extant. Nesselrath, Heinz-Günther (Göttingen) Bibliography 1 PCG V, 293. [German version] [2] Attic vase painter and potter of the late archaic period, c. 520-500 BC Attic vase painter and potter of the late archaic period who is considered like  Phintias and  Euthymides to belong to the group of ‘pioneers’ who helped red-figure vase painting achieve its breakthrough. E. wor…