Mannerists (Greek vase painting)

As mannerists is called in archaeological research, a large group of Attic red-figure vase - painters, which was recognized due to their being duly ornamented style of painting to that group.

The group of Mannerist consisted of more than 15 artists. They preferred as an image carrier Kolonettenkratere, hydriai and Peliken. Your creative period is set from 480 BC until almost the end of the 5th century BC. Characteristic for them is that they have retained elements of at this time of the red-figure painting almost displaced black-figure vases painting. Your characters seem long, have small heads, the draperies fall stair-like rigid down, the image frames are decorated with ornaments of the black-figure style. The motifs are based on earlier figurative themes. For example, Achilles and Ajax are shown in the board game, a popular motif of the black-figure period, such as the painter showed Exekias several times this scene in the. The figures are stiff and rigid in their attitude; gesticulate, as they would use a sign language; especially the hand position often affects theatrical. Especially popular are komos and symposium scenes. In the second generation of Mannerist mainly domestic scenes were popular due to the influence of other contemporary painters of the red-figure style. Sometimes mannerists also showed rare pictures, so the madness of Salmoneus, which was shown here for the only time in vase painting.

The earliest representatives of the style in time 480-450 BC worked in the workshop of the potter Myson. The most important artist was the Pan Painter. In addition, the pig - painter, the Leningrad painter and the Agrigento Painter. The middle phase, about 450-425 BC, is influenced by artists from the Nausicaa Hephaestus comprehensive group of seven painters. Leading artists were the two painters who gave the name of the group: the Nausicaa Painter and the Hephaistos Painter. The last major artists at the end of style towards the end of the 5th century, the Academy - painter and the painter of Athens 1183rd