Reed Painter
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The vessels of the Reed Painter are typical of white-ground lekythoi in that they often focus on real people, in contrast to the earlier
A lekythos by the Reed Painter is one of only a few white-figure examples that depict a horseman at a tomb; unusually, the youth sits at the tomb with his horse rather than riding it.[3] He may be an ephebe in training for the cavalry, as he wears the black cloak (chlamys) that was characteristic attire for the Athenian ephebe at certain processions and festivals. He also wears a helmet in the shape of the petasos, a hat typically worn by travelers, the metal version of which appears on Athenian reliefs and is known from archaeology. He carries two hunting spears, and not the kamax, the long thin spear principally used by Greek cavalry.[4]
Around the turn of the 21st century a number of the artist's lekythoi were discovered in a mass burial of plague victims in Athens.[5] Work from the atelier of the Reed Painter is concentrated in Attica, though a few examples have been found as exports to Gela and Corinth.[6]
The Reed Painter worked in true
References
- ^ Lawrence A. Tritle, A New History of the Peloponnesian War (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), p. 49.
- ^ Peter Connor and Heather Jackson, A Catalogue of Greek Vases in the Collection of the University of Melbourne at the Ian Potter Museum of Art (University of Melbourne, 2000), p. 159.
- ^ John H. Oakley, "White Lekythoi from Gela," in Ta Attika: Attic Figured Vases from Gela («L'Erma» di Bretschneider, 2003), p. 212.
- ^ Sekunda, Nicholas (2005) [1986]. The Ancient Greeks. Osprey. p. 19.
- ^ Oakley, "White Lekythoi from Gela," p. 212.
- ^ Maria Cecilia d'Ercole, "Figures hybrides d l'identité: Le cas de l'Adriatique préromaine," in Identités ethniques dans le monde grec antique (Presses Universitaires du Mirall, 2007), p. 172.
- ^ Connor and Jackson, A Catalogue of Greek Vases, p. 157.
- ^ Donald White et al., The Ancient Greek World: The Rodney S. Young Gallery (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1995), p. 35.