Beldam Painter

The Beldam Painter was an Attic vase painter of the black-figure style.

" Beldam Painter " is a Notname because the real name of the artist is not known. It received its name from a vase ( " Namenvase " ), on the one not to be identified older female person is tortured by several satyrs. The Beldam painter was one of the latest representative of his style. His creative life and his workshop is scheduled from about 470 BC to the second quarter of the 5th century BC. The products of his workshop are considered the last remaining produced in greater quantity in Athens vases of the black-figure style. Stylistically, his works are closely related to those of Haemon group.

The Beldam Painter continues the tradition smaller and slimmer lekythoi. The smallest of these vases have chimney mouths, sharp folds and shoulders high, clumsy feet. The drawings of the Beldam painter apply early in his career, especially on larger lekythoi with curved inward necks, be of high quality and better than that of Haemon - painter. Characteristic are also trailing ivy, with which he decorated the necks of many of his lekythoi for his work. Some of these are pure outline drawings, often together with funeral scenes. This Grablekythen are the first representatives of this kind in Athens and have since frequently produced in the city. Especially typical of the Beldam painter and his workshop are among the reasons white ornament Frisians and the generally frequent use of opaque white. A special feature of the artist are plants and checkerboard pattern on a white background, which are then produced by other workshops. His palmette lekythoi remember 581 at the works of the Class of Athens