Kleophrades Painter
The Kleophrades Painter ( active from about 505 until shortly after 475 BC in Athens ) was a Greek vase painter of the red-figure style. He received his Notnamen because he painted many vessels of the potter Kleophrades. John Boardman described him as the best painters of the early 5th century BC, next to the Berlin painter. In addition to the red-figured vases in the style of some examples of the black-figure style ( Panathenaic Preisamphoren ) are known.
The Kleophrades Painter attributed to more than 100 vases and fragments. His favorite vase shapes were Peliken, stamnoi, Kalpiden and bowls. Two of his Volutenkratere represent unique because they have two friezes on the neck. John D. Beazley said that the works of the boots - painter may represent the late work of Kleophrades - painter, but the recent research contradicts.
After the discovery of a Epiktetos signature on the Pelike F 2170 in the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities, the painter was called Epiktetos II, as his work has nothing to do with the Epiktetos already known as a vase painter. Meanwhile, the signature, however, has proven to be fake, so that the scientific community has returned to the old Notnamen.
Selected Works
- Basel Museum of Ancient Art and Ludwig Collection
- Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities
- Boston, Museum of Fine Arts
- Cambridge, Harvard University Art Museums
- London, The British Museum
- New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Malibu, The J. Paul Getty Museum
- Munich, Glyptothek and antique collection
- Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
- Paris, Musée National du Louvre
- Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania
- Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art
- Würzburg, Martin-von -Wagner- Museum