- Amasis Painter
The Amasis Painter (active around 550-510 BCE in
Athens ) was anancient Greek vase painter of theblack figure style. He owes his name to the fact that eight of the potter Amasis's manufactured marked work ("Amasis made me") are painted by the same painter, who we therefore called the Amasis painter. Today approximately 90 works are attributed to him.In his early works, he is still tied at the old traditions with excessively long figures with small heads and angular movements. Contrary to his predecessors he soon began to fill his own work with life and tension. He loosened his figures up and enriched it at the same time created new composition forms. The trigger for this change was most likely around 540 BCE. when imported
red figure painting appeared with their new representation possibilities, from which he was obviously inspired. He took over from the young red figure painters richer ornamentation and transferred it, as far as possible, to his black figure painting. Contrary to some younger contemporaries, like theAndokides Painter , whom he perhaps influenced, he held to the black figure style and did not change over. Nevertheless he seems to have occasionally attempted the red figure style.elected works
*Athens,
Acropolis Museum :Pinax 2510
*Berlin, Antikensammlung:Bauchamphora F 1688 • Amphora F 1691 • Fragment einer Bauchamphora F 1692
*Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum:Amphora 71.82
*Boston, Museum of Arts:Halsamphora 18026 • Amphora 01.8026 • Amphora 01.8027 • Kylix 10.651
*London, The British Museum:Olpe B 52 • Olpe B 471
*Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum:Schale 79.AE.197
*München,Staatliche Antikensammlung :Bauchamphora 1383 • Amphora 8763
*New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art:Bauchamphora 06.1021.69 • Amphora 56.171.10
*Paris, Musée National du Louvre:Schalen-Skyphos A 479 • Amphora F 25 • Amphora F 26 • Oinochoe F 30 • Amphora F 36 • Schale F 75
*Würzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum:Amphora L 265References
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John Beazley . "Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters". Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956.
*Dietrich von Bothmer. "The Amasis Painter and His World. Vase-Painting in Sixth-Century B.C. Athens". Malibu, California, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1985. ISBN 0-500-23443-4, ISBN 0-89236-086-0
*"Papers on the Amasis Painter and His World". Colloquium sponsored by the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities and symposium sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum. Malibu, California, J. Paul Getty Museum 1987. ISBN 0-89236-093-3
*Semni Karouzou. "The Amasis Painter." Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956.
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