Analatos Painter

The Analatos Painter was an Attic vase painter of the early Protoattischen style. His creative period, as that of his contemporaries Mesogeia Painter, about 700-675 BC recognized.

The name of the Analatos painter is not known. He received his Notnamen after Attic area Analatos (now Nea Smyrni ), where they found several of his works during archaeological excavations. In his Namenvase is a hydria. He stands at the transition from geometric to frühprotoattischen style. He is considered a student of the Late Geometric Statathou painter. The first works attributed to him, he still led out in the prior art. He pointed to a geometrically decorated hydria an Egyptian influenced prothesis. This influence of the Orient should be formative for the following protoattischen ( the so-called oriental ) style, for which the artist is one of the main representatives. Characteristic of the new style were mythical beasts, sphinxes, with faces and wings were cut out, loosely moving men and women dance, cable patterns and rosettes. His earliest known amphora (now at Oxford ) is in the abdominal area of a series of two sidecars - similar representations can be found for example on a Loutrophore in the Louvre - adorned. In many details the painter nor the old style remains committed. Besides amphoras and hydria he also decorated krater, bowls and lids. Maybe he was next to his work as a vase painter and potter.

A painter attributed votive tablets with remains of an inscription ( ΣΟΝΟΣΈΓΙΣΤ, sonos Ep ) provided, which speaks for the Schreibkundigkeit of the painter. Moreover, these are the oldest known painted inscription in Greek language.