Skythes

Skythes (

red-figure

vase painter active between about 520 and 505 BC.

Modern scholarship considers Skythes as a kind of artistic loner, whose work cannot easily be categorised among the known workshops and groups. He signed four known

bilingual

works he demonstrates his skill in the older black-figure style. Unusually, they feature red-figure paintings on the interior and on the outside black-figure on coral-red ground. Inside and outside each bear only one figure. He belonged to the first generation of vase painters to specialise in cups.
His figural images depict people in an exaggerated ugliness or brutishness, casting him, much in contrast to the norms then prevailing in Greek art, as a comedian, even a
Athenian Acropolis
bear the signature of a Skythes. It is assumed that they are also by him.
His vases occasionally bear the kalos inscriptionn Epilykos. The Pedieus Painter uses the same name, which has led some scholars to suggest that he is identical with Skythes towards the end of his career. On a vase by Phintias, the same Epilykos is depicted as an athlete. For some time, such vases were falsely ascribed to a non-existent painter Epilykos. The use of the name classifies Skythes as a member of the Epilykos Class.

Bibliography

Ricardo Olmos Romera: "Skythes", in Künstlerlexikon der Antike, p. 434-436

ISBN 3-8053-0234-7
p. 67

References

ISBN 978-618-5120-01-6
, p. 168.

External links

Media related to Skythes at Wikimedia Commons

Works at the Getty Museum

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[1] ISBN 978-618-5120-01-6
, p. 168.