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Affecter

(146 words)

Author(s): Mommsen, Heide (Stuttgart)
[German version] Attic black-figured vase painter c. 550/540-520, named after the affected style of his figures; based on that style, it has been possible to attribute 135 vessels to him. Without doubt, A. was both potter and painter who specialized in amphoras which he produced in several of his own variants. They are very precise and thin-walled, and decorated in a special, sometimes antiquated manner. For the figurative pictures, he was less interested in the narrative content than in the decorativ…

Theseus Painter

(231 words)

Author(s): Mommsen, Heide (Stuttgart)
[German version] Attic late Black Figure vase painter, c. 505-485 BC; named after his depictions of Theseus. Although contemporary with the great early Red Figure masters, many vase painters still clung to the old Black Figure technique, in which they sloppily painted mainly smallish pots. In contrast to this the TP distinguishes himself by a clear figural style with long sinuous engraving lines and with a very individual multiplicity of themes. To date it has been possible to attribute to him about 200…

Gorgo Painter

(192 words)

Author(s): Mommsen, Heide (Stuttgart)
[German version] Attic black-figured vase painter of c. 600-580 BC, named after his main work ─ a dinos on a tall base in the Louvre depicting Perseus' escape from the Gorgos. The Gorgo Painter (GP) is the first representative of the animal frieze style in Athens. He was a successor of the  Nettos painter, into who's ‘monstrous’ style he brings order by following the Corinthian model of capturing the demonic world of animals in friezes and arranging them in symmetrical groups. He utilizes the blank picture area …

Siana cups

(243 words)

Author(s): Mommsen, Heide (Stuttgart)
[German version] A genre of Attic black-figure cups, named after a site on Rhodes. The dominant type of drinking vessel in the second quarter of the 6th century BC, which later continued for a long time beside Little-Master cups. Compared to its antecedents, komast cups, in a SC the offset rim is higher, the flaring stem is taller and the handles point slightly upwards. Also new and characteristic is a tondo image on the bottom of the cup- often with a kneeling figure -  which is framed by a borde…

Panathenaic prize amphorae

(514 words)

Author(s): Mommsen, Heide (Stuttgart)
[German version] Black-figured, painted pottery vessels for Attic olive oil, presented as a prize to victors in the gymnic and hippic agones at the 'Great Panathenaea' (Sport festivals). The series began with the reorganization of the Panathenaic festival (Panathenaea) in 566/5 BC, and continued into the 2nd cent. BC; the black-figured technique was maintained throughout. The PPA combined the form of the neck amphorae of the time of their origin (echinus foot and mouth, neck ring, handles with rou…

Komast cups

(202 words)

Author(s): Mommsen, Heide (Stuttgart)
[German version] Important group of Attic vases of the early black figure style, which are called after their favourite theme, the wildly dancing drinker; heyday: 585 to 570/560 BC. Models for the Komast cups (KC) are the Corinthian fat-bellied dancers in short padded dress with exaggerated buttocks. Among other borrowings from Corinthian ceramics is, above all, the shape of the komast cup, a bulbous cup with a narrow, off-set lip on a tapered base, the starting-point for the development of the At…

Clitias

(396 words)

Author(s): Mommsen, Heide (Stuttgart)
[German version] (Κλιτίας; Klitías). Attic black-figured vase painter of the high Archaic period, c. 570-560 BC, master of the ‘François Vase’, which bears his signature twice and moreover that of the potter  Ergotimus. Both masters also signed a stand and two or three ‘Gordium bowls’, which, however, have little or no figurative painting. Moreover, several fragments with scenes from mythology have been attributed to C. The ‘François Vase’, named after the archaeologist who found it, a monumental voluted krater (Florence, MA), with its lively mythological ima…

Lysippides Painter

(258 words)

Author(s): Mommsen, Heide (Stuttgart)
[German version] Attic black-figure vase painter from the late archaic period, c. 530-510 BC; named after a kalos inscription ( Lysippídēs) on one of his amphorae. The LP is the most important student of Execias, from whom he adopted not only his drawing technique but also some subjects (e.g. Ajax and Achilles playing board games); otherwise he favours the feats of Heracles. About 30 vases have been ascribed to the LP, mostly amphorae and eye-bowls. His neck and belly amphorae (see Pottery with fig.), the shapes, m…

Sophilus

(372 words)

Author(s): Mommsen, Heide (Stuttgart) | Hidber, Thomas (Berne)
(Σώφιλος; Sṓphilos). [German version] [1] Early Attic BF vase painter, c. 600-570 BC Early Attic black-figured vase painter, c. 600-570 BC, the earliest whose name is known (3 painter signatures verified). S. is one of the representatives of the animal frieze style, as is the Gorgo Painter, to whom he is very close. His significance, however, is founded on a mythological frieze with which S. introduces new possibilities to Attic vase painting. In this he also uses particular painting techniques, which create a ve…

Nettus Painter

(313 words)

Author(s): Mommsen, Heide (Stuttgart)
[German version] First significant vase painter of the black-figured style in Athens, c. 620-600 BC. Named after the representation of the battle between Heracles and Nessus on the neck of a monumental grave amphora with the inscription ΝΕΤΟΣ/ NETOS for Attic Νέττος/ Néttos (Athens, NM 1002). The NP and his contemporaries gave up the early Attic experimental manner of painting with contour drawing and introduced silhouette painting which was developed in Corinth (Corinthian vases). Following the Corinthian model, he also reduced ornamen…

Nearchus

(948 words)

Author(s): Mommsen, Heide (Stuttgart) | Badian, Ernst (Cambridge, MA) | Günther, Linda-Marie (Munich)
(Νέαρχος; Néarchos). [German version] [1] Attic Black-Figure vase painter, c. 560 BC Attic black-figure vase painter and potter of the high Archaic Period, c. 560 BC. His name appears on eight vessels; of these one painter's and four potter's signatures are certainly his. N.'s importance is based primarily on the fragment of the great kantharos from the Acropolis with the painter's signature (Athens, NM Acr. 611 and AP 67), depicting Achilles harnessing his team of horses and the handover of weapons. By choosing the motif of harnessing - here for t…
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