Marsyas Painter

The Marsyas Painter is a painter of the Attic red-figure - style. His works are dated to the period 370-340 / 30 BC.

The Marsyas Painter is perhaps the best painter of the Attic red-figure vase painting of the 4th century BC in the so-called Kerch style. He received his Notnamen from the representation of Marsyas on a Pelike, which is now in the Hermitage. Currently, 23 works have been attributed to him. These mainly include larger vessels such as Lebetes gamikoi, Peliken, hydriai and Lekaniden. A few years ago the Marsyas Painter ten Panathenaic Preisamphoren were assigned what a new assessment allowed. It represents topics from the world of women and scenes of everyday life as well is as mythological motifs. He paints harmonious and yet monumental figures, his brushwork is evidence of safety. He is a master of spatial representation and plays with shortening and contraction, which causes statuative effects. Fabrics and garments are rich in detail and volume bounds. His masterpiece is a Lebes gamikos from the Hermitage, which was found in Kerch. Here he shows the epaúlia, the feast of the newlywed wife. On a Pelike with Peleus and Thetis, he shows perhaps the best female nude studies of the entire Greek vase painting. Additional colors such as white gold and he often sets but restrained. Lately, he is equated by some researchers with the Eleusinian Painter.