Dodwell Painter

The Dodwell Painter was a designated a Notnamen ancient Greek vase painter who decorated his works in the Corinthian black-figure - style. He worked during the middle and Spätkorinthischen phase of the style ( approximately 600-550 BC), his works may be approximately between the years 580 and 570 BC dated.

The Dodwell Painter was one of the most important Corinthian vase painters of his time. He decorated especially pyxides and oinochoai, but also neck amphorae and hydriai. He painted the vases mostly with animal or tab Friesen. Of paramount importance is a Pyxis in the State Collection of Antiquities in Munich, which is called the Dodwell pyxis. It shows on the lid the Calydonian boar hunt and besides other mythological figures, including Agamemnon, which do not participate in the hunt. The inscriptions, however, do not belong in part to the described figures. In addition, another important vase found in the Villa Giulia in Rome. On a more Olpe Komasten are displayed on a frieze, dancing around a crater on a second frieze Heracles as he fights against the Hydra. In general, his pictures are experienced, but not overly so precisely drawn. He will be assigned about 70 decorated vessels, according to Darrell A. Amyx can be another ten painters stylistic point in the perimeter of the Dodwell Painter. Also, they painted mainly pyxides and oinochoai with animal friezes. There are also various successors, whose works can be traced back to that of the Dodwell Painter.