Hermonax

Hermonax (fl. 470-440 BC in Athens ) was a Greek vase painters of the so-called Attic red-figured style. From him are now ten with " Hermonax has [ it ] painted " signed works known. This is mainly to stamnoi, Peliken and a bowl. In addition, he also painted still mostly small-format neck amphorae, Loutrophoren, lekythoi, cans and hydriai.

He was obviously a student of the Berlin painter, but may have come for stylistic reasons only late in his workshop. Hermonax took only its extensiveness and dryness. From the moving early works of the Berlin painter is to feel nothing at Hermonax. Nevertheless, he managed to tread new paths with the acquisition. Hermonax began to take on the vessel surfaces only little consideration. Individual ornaments, especially those on the handles, he pushed further and further to the edge or just let them all away. In some works, he even used the handles to expand its figurative compositions on this. Mostly he painted so many, even overlapping figures that the bright portion almost supplanted the dark background of the vessels. Only on small vessels he renounced large groups of figures. With its investment of figure groups on large vessels Hermonax trod on the other hand completely new ways. Until now, for certain representations of known mythological scenes certain standards, which concerned the number of painted figures. Hermonax contrast, enriched these scenes to additional figures that had nothing to do with the history shown and this only stretched. However, this had the consequence that appear on his works again and again figures that appear weakened in their descriptive power, as just individual parts sticking out of them from the traditional painting surface and, for example, continue on the handles. Many archaeologists assume, therefore, that Hermonax already transferred prefabricated scenes of his vases, without asking first be asked whether they ever fit in this form to the vessel body.

The archeology writes Hermonax today to over 200 vases.

Selected Works

• Adria, Museo Civico

• Agrigento, Museo Archeologico Regionale

• Altenburg, Staatliches Lindenau - Museum

• Ancona, Museo Archeologico Nazionale

• Argos Archaeological Museum

• Athens, Agora Museum

• Athens, Acropolis Museum

• Athens, National Museum

• Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

• Barcelona, ​​Museo Arqueologico

• Basel, Basel Museum of Ancient Art and Ludwig Collection

• Bern, Historisches Museum

• Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico

• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts

• Boulogne, Musée Communale

• Bristol, City Museum

• Brussels, Musées des Beaux -Arts Royaux

• Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr College

• Cambridge (Massachusetts), Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum

• Chicago, University of Chicago

• Christchurch, University of Canterbury

• Columbia Museum of Art & Archaeology

• Dresden, Albertinum

• Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina

• Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco

• Gela, Museo Archeologico

• Glasgow Museum & Art Gallery

• Gotha, Castle Museum

• Göttingen, Georg -August- Universitat

• Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum

• Innsbruck, University

• Istanbul Archaeological Museum

• Karlsruhe, Baden State Museum

• Kassel, Museum Castle Wilhelm height

• Katania, Museo Civico

• Cologne, University of

• London, British Museum

• London, Victoria & Albert Museum

• Los Angeles County Museum of Art

• Madrid, Archaeological Museum Nacional

• Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg University

• Manchester, City Art Gallery & Museum

• Marseille, Musee Borely

• Melfi, Museo Nazionale del Melfese

• Metaponto, Museo Civico

• Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

• Moscow, Pushkin Museum

• Munich, Glyptothek and antique collection

• Münster, Archaeological Museum of the University

• Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale

• Naples, Palazzo di San Nicandro (Museo Mustilli )

• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Norwich, Castle Museum

• Orvieto, Museo Civico ( Collezione Faina )

• Oxford, Ashmolean Museum

• Paestum, Museo Archeologico Nazionale

• Palermo, Collezione Collisani

• Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale

• Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale ( Cabinet des Medailles )

• Paris, Musée National du Louvre

• Rhodes, Archaeological Museum

• Rome, Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia

• Samothrace Archaeological Museum

• St. Louis, St. Louis Art Museum

• San Simeon, Hearst Corporation

• St. Petersburg, Hermitage Museum

• Sarajevo, Zemaljski muzej of Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Stockholm, Medelhavsmuseum

• Syracuse, Archaeological Museum

• Tampa, Tampa Museum of Art

• Trieste, Museo Storia ed Arte

• Tübingen, Eberhard Karls University

• Vatican City, Gregorian Etruscan Museum Vaticano

• Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe

• Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum

• Vienna, University of

• Wiesbaden, State Office

• Würzburg, Martin-von -Wagner- Museum

• Zurich, University of