Lucanian vase painting
The Lucania vase painting was 450-325 BC, a regional style of the red-figure vase painting - unteritalisch. She was the oldest unteritalische regional style. Together with the Sicilian and paestanischen vase painting she made a closer stylistic Community.
The Lucania vase painting began around the year 430 BC with the work of Pisticci Painter. This worked well in Pisticci, where part of his work was found, and still stand strong in the Attic tradition. His vases show little mythological scenes, which probably corresponded to the local taste. Most were produced as grave goods. Other early centers of production were in Policoro and Metaponto. The successor of Pisticci Painter, the Amycus painter (a student ) or the Cyclops Painter, had their workshop in Metapontum. 1973, the evidence of a pottery workshop in the city in the late 5th and early 4th century was out, as unearthed a pottery kiln with fragments of vases Amykos Painter, the Creusa Painter and the Dolon Painter in excavations. This created the first new type vases Nestoris. Lucania vases were exported in considerable quantity to Puglia. The Dolon Painter may emigrated to Puglia, his late work shows influences of the Apulian Tarporley Painter. To 370 BC ended the workshops in Policoro and Metaponto its operation, and the production was moved to the hinterland. After the middle of the 4th century BC, the quality of the Lukan vases decreased more and more. The image issues were always monotonous, exports to Apulia heard almost on. To 325 BC ended the production, last important representatives were the Apulian vase painters from Lycurgus painter influenced Primato Painter and the Rocca Nova Painter. There are about 1,500 known Lukan vases.
Frequently mythical scenes and images were shown out of the theater life. So named after the Cheophoroi of Aeschylus Cheophoroi - painter painted on several of his vases of scenes from this tragedy. At this time, the influence of Apulian vase painting made noticeable. Especially polychromy and ornamental plants decors were now standard.