Lysippides Painter
The Lysippides Painter was an
Life and work
His conventional name is derived from a
His collaboration with the
Style
The Lysippides Painter's works consisted of many neck-amphorae that were based on the works of Exekias, his mentor. Lysippides' works however, were simplified compared to those of Exekias. This style actually became very popular in the Archaic Period. Especially showing in the late 6th century and early 5th as his neck-amphorae stand on the front lines of a series of vases.[1] Many of his works were extremely similar to Exekias. A vase in Detroit depicts the mythical Greek hero, Herakles wrestling a lion. This depiction takes after a neck-amphorae version done by Exekias in multiple ways. While there is no saying that Lysippides is the painter, the vase is grouped with his work stylistically in the way it takes after Exekias and that the work narrows all the attention on Herakles' role in the battle rather than the lion's. These elements are strongly associated with the work of the Lysippides Painter.[2] Like most artists during this time, his work contained many religious references of Greek gods and goddesses in his work. Herakles being one of the more popular.
Of the 204 vases attributed to the Lysippides Painter in the Beazley Archive, there are over 60 of Herakles in various forms of heroism, fighting the lion, mounting chariots with Athena, fighting Amazons (Amazonomachy), and fighting giants (Giantomachy). He is almost always shown in his lion cape, with hood resting on the back of his black hair, defined with white paint. The arms of the lion are tied around his chest (where muscles are also well defined with white lines).
Of the 204 vases attributed to Lysippides P in the Beazley archives, 112 are large
Works
Most of the Lysippides Painter's vases appear to have been traded to Italy, especially the area around Rome, Etruria. Of the 85 vases that have listed provenances, 74 were shipped to Italy and over of 50 of these to the Etruria region. The other provenances include Sicily, Egypt and Turkey, but they appear in nominal numbers.
bilingual belly amphorae, painted in collaboration with the Andokides Painter
- bilingual belly amphora 151
- Front: Nemean Lion[3]
- Front:
- bilingual belly amphora 99.538
- bilingual belly amphora 01.8037
Front and back: Achilles and Ajax playing a board game[6][7]
- bilingual belly amphora B 193
- Front: Herakles and the Neman Lion between
- bilingual belly amphora 2301
- Front and back: Herakles at the symposion[10]
- Front and back: Herakles at the
- bilingual belly amphora F 204
other works (selection)
- belly amphora 62b
- London, British Museum
- neck amphoraB 211
- eye-cup B 426
- oinochoeB 492
- belly amphora II 1 B 70
- Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen
- neck amphora 1478
- neck amphora 1575
- eye-cup 2080
- neck amphora 208
- belly mphora 1965.100 (formerly Northwick, Spencer-Churchill collection)
- Paris, Louvre
- hydria F 294
- Pregny, Baron E. de Rothschild
- belly amphora
- Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia
- belly amphora 24998
- Zurich, University
- neck amphora ETH 7
Bibliography
- John Beazley: Attic Black-figure Vase-painters. Oxford 1956, p. 253-257 (p. 257-265: Style of the Lysippides Painter).
- Herbert Marwitz: Zur Einheit des Andokidesmalers, in: Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes 46, 1961–63, p. 73-104.
- Elfriede R. Knauer: Die Berliner Andokides-Vase, Werkmonographien zur Bildenden Kunst in Reclams Universal-Bibliothek 103, Stuttgart 1965
- John Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters, Oxford 1971, p. 113-116.
- ISBN 3-8053-0233-9, p.
- Beth Cohen: Attic Bilingual Vases and their Painters, New York 1978 ISBN 0-8240-3220-9
- Martin Robertson: The art of vase-painting in classical Athens, Cambridge 1992, p. 9-14.
- Heide Mommsen: Lysippides-Maler, in: Der Neue Pauly Vol. 7, 1999, Col. 610.
- Marianne Pécasse: Recherches sur l'atelier d'Andokidès: transmission de modèles et circulation d'artisans, Dissertation Université Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris 2001
- Beth Cohen: Bilingual Vases and Vase-Painters, in: ibid.: The Colours of Clay. Special Techniques in Athenian Vases, Los Angeles 2006, p. 18-25.
- John Beazley, The Development of Attic Black-figure, Volume 24. California: University of California Press, 1951
- Madigan and Brian Christopher, Corinthian and Attic Vases in the Detroit Institute of Arts: Geometric, Black-figure, and Red-figure. Monumenta Graeca Et Romana: Print/Save 100 pages, 2008
Notes
- ^ Beazley, John (1951). The Development of Attic Black-figure, Volume 24. California: University of California Press. p. 71.
- ^ Madigan, Brian Christopher (2008). Corinthian and Attic Vases in The Detroit Institute of Arts: Geometric, Black-figure, and Red-figure. Monumenta Graeca Et Romana: Print/Save 100 pages. p. 17.
- ^ "Classical Art Research Centre - Beazley Archive".
- ^ "Boston 99.538 (Vase)".
- ^ "MFA Boston: Collections Search Results". Archived from the original on 2007-02-23. Retrieved 2010-09-26.
- ^ "Boston 01.8037 (Vase)".
- ^ "MFA Boston: Collections Search Results". Archived from the original on 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2010-09-26.
- ^ "London B 193 (Vase)".
- ^ "Classical Art Research Centre - Beazley Archive".
- ^ "Munich 2301 (Vase)".
- ^ "Louvre F 203 (Vase)".
- ^ "Site officiel du musée du Louvre".
- ^ "Classical Art Research Centre - Beazley Archive".
- ^ "Attic Black-Figure Psykter (Getty Museum)".
- ^ "Classical Art Research Centre - Beazley Archive".
- ^ "Site officiel du musée du Louvre".
External links
- Media related to Lysippides Painter at Wikimedia Commons
- Getty-Museum