Makron (vase painter)

Macron ( Μάκρων ancient Greek ) was a Greek vase painter of the red-figure style, which worked BC in Athens to 500-480. He seems to have worked closely with the potter Hieron because he has painted almost all of its known today for vessels. Sir John D. Beazley wrote him about 339 works, of which 330 shells. There are many indications that he painted vessels in large quantities and the mass market served. Despite this extensive production he has never repeats itself simply in his paintings and motifs, as far as known so far. Again and again he succeeded to develop new forms of movement and relationships, so that his creativity did not suffer from the monotonous work routine. His favorite subjects were representations of the Komo, Symposium, love scenes, scenes with boys and athletes. In addition, he has devoted himself, though rarely, the Dionysian Thiaos and even more rarely myths.

His early works are characterized by surface -filling compositions with numerous, overlapping figures. With his development but he soon found joy in less extensive character ensembles. He focused more on the representations to each other single large characters and their relationships. In the outer and side pictures he kept strictly to prescribed forms, but never look boring by their non- repetitive elements.

He worked a lot for export to Italy, but also for the Greek market.

Selected Works

  • Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Museum Shell AIA B10
  • Basel Museum of Ancient Art and Ludwig Collection Shell cage 410
  • Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities Shell F 2290 F 2291 • Shell • Shell • Shell F 2292 F 2301 • fragment of a bowl 3728
  • Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 01.8022 • 01.8072 • shell shell shell shell 08 293 03 856 • • Shell • 13.67 Skyphos 13,186 • Shell 89 293
  • Bowdoin, Bowdoin College Museum of Art askos 1923.30
  • Bremen, Museum of Ancient Art in the Schnorr Kylix
  • Brussels, Musées d'Art et d' Histoire Royaux Shell R 247
  • Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr College Fragment of a shell P 193
  • Cambridge, Harvard University Art Museums shell 1972.41
  • Frankfurt am Main, Museum of Prehistory and Early History Fragment of a bowl VF b 404
  • Gotha, Castle Museum shell 49
  • London, The British Museum Skyphos E 140
  • Madrid, Archaeological Museum Nacional shell 11268
  • Mississippi, University of Mississippi shell 1977.3.105
  • Munich, Glyptothek and antique collection Shell shell 2617 • 2643 • 2644 • shell shell shell 2654 • 2655 • 2657 shell
  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 06 152 12.231.1 shell • Shell • Shell 20 246
  • Orvieto, Museo Faina shell 36
  • Paris, Musée National du Louvre Fragment of a shell C 10918 • Shell • Shell G 141 G 142 G 143 • Shell • Shell • G 145 G 146 Skyphos • Shell • Shell MNE G 149 961
  • Philadelphia, University Museum Shell MS 2515
  • Providence, Rhode Iceland School of Design askos 25 074
  • Rome, Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia shell 50396
  • St Petersburg, Hermitage Museum shell 649
  • Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art shell 1972.55
  • Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum shell 3698
  • Würzburg, Martin-von -Wagner- Museum Shell L shell • 480 L 481
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