Amasis Painter

The Amasis Painter (also Amasismaler; worked about 550-510 BC in Athens ) was a Greek vase painter of the black-figure style. His Notnamen he owes to the fact that eight of the potter Amasis made ​​signed works ( Amasis made ​​me - it has - made ​​) have been painted by a painter, who was called then the Amasis Painter. From these works, it now around 90 works are attributed, of which surely even more of Amasis have been molded to the potter.

In his early works he was still tied to the old traditions with excessively long figures with small heads and angular movements. In contrast to his predecessors, but he managed soon to fill his own work with life and excitement. He loosened the traditional forms on the one hand and enriched it at the same time new forms of composition. His characters are always fuller over time and are full of courage. The trigger for this change was most likely introduced to BC red-figure vase painting 540 with their new display options, from which he drew inspiration obvious. He took over the methods used by the young red-figure painters richer configurations and transferred them to the extent possible, on his black-figure painting. Unlike some younger contemporaries, such as the Andokides - painter, on which he has perhaps oriented, he continued to hold fast to the black-figure painting and put not around.

Works

  • Athens, Acropolis Museum: Pinax 2510
  • Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities: Amphora amphora F 1691 F 1688 • • Fragment of an amphora F 1692
  • Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum: Amphora 71.82
  • Boston, Museum of Arts: Neck amphora amphora 18 026 • 01.8026 • 01.8027 • Shell Amphora 10,651
  • London, British Museum: Olpe Olpe • B 52 B 471
  • Munich, Glyptothek and antique collection: Amphora amphora 1383 • 8763
  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Amphora amphora 56.171.10 06.1021.69 •
  • Paris, Musée National du Louvre: Shell Skyphos A 479 • Amphora Amphora F F 25 • 26 • 30 • Amphora Oinochoe F F 36 F 75 • Shell
  • Würzburg, Martin-von -Wagner- Museum: Amphora L 265
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