Andokides painter

The Andokides Painter was an Attic vase painter of Spätarchaik. The to 510 BC active from about 530 artists considered mostly as the "inventor" of the red-figure vase painting.

Life and work

The actual name of Andokides painter is not known. He received his Notnamen by the potter Andokides who signed five painted by him vessels. Apart from three eye cups all his vases are Bauchamphoren the so-called " type A". The painter is considered as a student of the famous black-figure vases painter Exekias. He will be the first attempts to paint in the red-figure style attributed. In addition, he also experimented with white-ground painting.

Seven of the vases attributed to him, six Bauchamphoren and an eye cup, are so-called bilinguals with a red-figure and a blackfigure painted side. John D. Beazley wrote the black-figure vases of this page to the Lysippides - painter, as well as a number of other, very blackfigure painted vessels. Already Beazley was not sure whether this involved two personalities painter or a painter with different style elements in the techniques. Ultimately, he decided, however, for two different painters; the reasons for this have clearly worked out mainly by Beth Cohen, as well as by Heide Mommsen. For the unity of the two painter Konrad approximately Schauenburg, Herbert Marwitz and John Boardman spoke of; Martin Robinson and others held to a draw in the question. For an identity which is distinct stylistic differences in the detail drawing of red-figure and black-figure pictures speak especially with anatomical information. Proponents see this as an intentional element of style as desired juxtaposition of the different ways the two styles of painting. " The discrepancy between the traditionally - bound painting of Lysippides - painter and the unprejudiced and sensitive red-figure images [ of Andokides Painter ], in spite of mutual adaptation can be explained only with the diverse nature of two masters " (H. Mommsen ).

The images of the Andokides painter usually show mythical themes, which Heracles representations predominate. The figures are somewhat stiff and rigid, " but emit a naive, cheerful charm " ( I. Wehgartner ). Striking is the economical single drawing of the body in contrast to the very ornamentalized representation of clothing. The possibilities of red-figure painting drew the Andokides Painter not out yet, which remained the pioneer group to Euphronios reserved. The proximity of his style to that of the frieze of the Treasury of the Siphnier in Delphi allow the dating of the earliest works, and thus the earliest red-figure vase painting around the year 530 BC to.

Works

Bilingue Bauchamphoren, painted along with the Lysippides Painter

  • Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico
  • Boston, Museum of Fine Arts
  • London, British Museum
  • Munich, Collection of Classical Antiquities
  • Paris, Louvre

Other works

  • Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities
  • Budapest
  • Leipzig, Museum of Ancient Art at the University of
  • New York, Metropolitan Museum
  • Orvieto, Museo Claudio Faina
  • Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale
  • Paris, Louvre
  • Basel Museum of Ancient Art and Ludwig Collection (formerly Switzerland, private collection )
  • Taranto, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
Eye-cup Bilingual inscription John Boardman (art historian) Dietrich von Bothmer Attica Euthymides Phintias (painter) Smikros Nikosthenes Integrated Authority File
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