Oltos

Oltos ( ancient Greek Ὄλτος ) was an agent working in Athens vase painter of Spätarchaik. From the period 525-500 BC, about 150 works of the painter, especially shells, handed down from which the shell F 2264 in Berlin ( Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities ) and the shell RC 6848 in Tarquinia (Museo Nazionale Tarquiniese ) are signed.

Oltos began his work in the pottery workshop of Nikosthenes. Initially designed Oltos especially bilingual vases with black- indoor and outdoor red-figure images. His black-figure style is influenced by Psiax and from Antimenes painter. Pure black- works Oltos are still not known. The shell pictures are mostly einfigurig and tense, different movement and viewing directions are not uncommon. Later Oltos devoted himself entirely to the red-figure painting, where he was from Andokides painter and several representatives of the so-called pioneer group, especially his former pupil Euphronios affected.

His drawings were flat and elegant, but never reached the detail of other red-figure master. He had a special fondness for lavish ornamentation and symmetrical compositions. In the middle period to Oltos devoted increasingly to the depiction of mythological scenes. Over time Oltos worked with several potters. Proved is the collaboration with at least six: Hischylos, in a special way Pamphaios, with whom he created the first ever stamnos, Tleson, Chelis, finally Kachrylion, where he worked with Euphronios, and Euxitheos.

An innovation introduced Oltos, found on an amphora (London, British Museum E 258). Here he presented a single figure without framing and level line dar.

Selected Works

  • Altenburg, Staatliches Lindenau - Museum shell 224
  • Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Museum Fragment of a bowl AIA B1
  • Basel, antiques collection and collection Louis Shell BS 459
  • Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities Shell F 2263 F 2264 • Shell • Phiale F 2310 F 4220 • Shell • Shell F 4221
  • Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Shell 13.83 • fragment of a bowl 08.31d • Ceramic fragment 10,219
  • Bowdoin, Bowdoin College Museum of Art Fragment of a bowl 1913.14
  • Chicago, University of Chicago (David and Alfred Smart Gallery) shell 1967.115
  • Fayetteville, The University Museum shell 56.25.15
  • London, The British Museum Shell E 41 • amphora E 258 E 437 • stamnos
  • Mount Holyoke, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum shell 1967.BS.II.11
  • Munich, Glyptothek and antique collection Shell shell 2593 • 2618
  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art psykter 1989.281.69
  • Paris, Musée National du Louvre Ceramic fragment CA 3662 • Amphora Amphora • G 2 G 3
  • Tarquinia, Museo Nazionale Tarquiniese Shell RC 6848
  • Vatican, Gregorian Etruscan Museum shell 498
Enceladus (mythology) Antikensammlung Berlin Bilingual inscription Eye-cup Integrated Authority File Attica Douris (vase painter) Epiktetos Makron (vase painter) Onesimos (vase painter) Skythes Notname Antiphon Painter Brygos Painter Dokimasia Painter Triptolemos Painter
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