Achilles Painter

The Achilles Painter is a painter of the Attic red-figure - style. He looked about in a period 460-430 BC

The Achilles Painter is considered as disciple and successor of the Berlin painter in his workshop. He has as his teacher a special fondness for big black vases on which it shows only single figures or pairs of figures. So he paints studies of gods and Niken, tracking and farewells. Larger groups or even told stories appeal to them. He mostly painted Bauchamphoren that is already no longer up to date at this time, or Nolanische amphorae. In some black stamnoi he paints small, vignette -like miniatures. His style fits very well with the increasingly popular bulbous lekythoi, which are generally decorated only with head or chest images. When he painted large vase with several figures, they remain on the base line and are not moved in perspective. Maybe he has also painted Panathenaic Preisamphoren.

Many of his best works he produced on white ground lekythoi. Sometimes he uses associated with the white-ground red-figured painting grave themes even with pictures. In the white-ground work, he brings to the outline drawings with gloss paint and used for the skin of women additional white ( "second White "). Despite the determination of the sepulchral vases show only a few references to this issue. Shown are mostly domestic issues such as mistress and maid or distinctive warrior. Except for the representation of the Muses on a vase but the funeral cult appear all representations appropriately and almost all white-ground work of the Achilles Painter were found in graves. Kalos names of his early vases are Clinias and Lichas, on white-ground work Diphilus and Dromippos on later works Euaion and Axiopeithes. Give rise to their destiny as grave vases doubt The Kalos name to the white-ground vases, since such labels probably less matched the grave cult. The Phiale painter is considered as disciple of the Achilles Painter, other painters, such as the dwarf - painter and the Persephone Painter be seen in its tradition. John Boardman called the Achilles Painter as " the most important artists of the classical " ( in reference to the red-figure Attic vase painting ). He received his Notnamen The presentation of Achilles on an amphora from Vulci in the Vatican Museums.

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