- Dipylon Master
-
Dipylon Vase Dipylon Master, from Dipylon Cemetery, c750 B.C.
The Dipylon Master was an ancient Greek vase painter who was active from around 760-750 BCE. He worked in Athens, where he and his workshop produced large funerary vessels for those interred in the Dipylon cemetery, whence his name comes. His work belongs to the very Late stage of the Geometric Style, his vases served as grave markers and libation receptacles for aristocratic graves and as such are decorated with a depiction of the prothesis scene representing the mourning of the deceased. Almost 50 vases have been attributed to the Dipylon Master and his workshop. His works are among the first figural scenes to be found on vases in Greece since the collapse of the Mycenean palace culture.
References
- Boardman, J. Early Greek Vase Painting: 11th-6th Centuries BC: A Handbook (World of Art). London: Thames and Hudson Publishing, May 1998. ISBN 0500203091 (ISBN 9780500203095).
Pottery of ancient Greece Wine shapes Perfume shapes and wedding shapes Funerary shapes and cultic shapes Storage shapes Techniques Painters Special topics in Greek pottery Typology · Kalos inscription · Symposium · Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum · John Beazley · Panathenaic Amphorae · South ItalianCategories:- 8th-century BC deaths
- Ancient Greek vase painters
- Anonymous artists of antiquity
- Ancient Athenians
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
