Polyphemos Painter

Polyphemos Painter

The Polyphemos Painter (or Polyphemus Painter) was a high Proto-Attic vase painter, active in Athens or on Aegina. He is considered an innovator in Attic art, since he introduced several mythological themes. His works are dated to between 670 and 650 BC. It is likely that he was not only a vase painter, but also the potter of the vessels bearing his works.

The Polyphemus Painter was probably a pupil of the Mesogeia Painter. His conventional name refers to his name vase, a neck amphora found at Eleusis, which had served as the funerary vase for a child. It is sometimes known as the Eleusis Amphora. The painting on the neck, depicting the blinding of Polyphemus, and that on the belly, showing Perseus and the gorgons, belong to the earliest identifiable depictions of scenes from Greek mythology. The Antikensammlung at Berlin contains a clay stand, known as the Menelas Stand, by the Polyphemus Painter. It depicts a group of men holding spears. Not unlike scenes in modern-day comics, a written word emanates from their leader's mouth, forming the oldest known inscription in Attic art. It is written in the Doric dialect, unsual in Attica, but spoken on Aegina. The inscription names the leader of the group as "Menelas" (Menelaus). Since all figures wear identical clothing, they may represent a chorus. Thus, the "speech bubble" could also be interpreted as the lines of a chorus. In Greek drama, the chorus conventionally spoke Doric. Before the identity of the painters of the Berlin and Eleusis pieces had been established, the Menelas Stand was sometimes ascribed to a hypothetical Menelas Painter.

Literature

* Thomas Mannack in "Griechische Vasenmalerei. Eine Einführung", Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, p. 135–136, ISBN 3-8062-1743-2

ee also

* Orientalising Period
* Pottery of ancient Greece

External links

* [http://www.answers.com/topic/polyphemos-painter-2?cat=entertainment Polyphemos Painter at "Answers.com]


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