The Amasis Painter and His World

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Название:The Amasis Painter and His World

Издательство:J. Paul Getty Museum

Автор:Dietrich von Bothmer, Alan L. Boegehold

Год: 1985

Количество страниц:248

Язык:English

Формат:pdf

Размер:141 Mb

The Amasis Painter was one of ancient Greece’s greatest vase painters, yet his own name has not been recorded, and he is known today only by the name of the potter whose works he most often decorated. A true individualist in the history of Athenian painting, he produced work distinguished by its delicacy, precision, and wit.

When the Amasis Painter began his artistic career around 560 B.C., Attic black-figure vase-painting was already fully established and about to overtake Corinthian pottery in the competition for the Etruscan market. Toward the end of his extraordinarily long career—around 515 B.C. —the red-figure technique had been invented and was rapidly supplanting black-figure in fashion. By tracing the Amasis Painter’s stylistic development from his earliest vases to his latest, this book offers a survey of Attic black-figure technique at the peak of its perfection.

The book was prepared to accompany an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1985-1986. The exhibition is the first ever to be devoted to the work of a single artist from ancient Greece, and twenty-two museums and private collectors have lent the vases on display.

Table of Contents

Director’s Foreword

Preface

Abbreviations

The Time of the Amasis Painter

Alan L. Boegehold

The World of the Amasis Painter

Dietrich von Bothmer

Color Plates

Catalogue

Amphorae

Panel-amphorae (type B)

Panel-amphorae (type A)

Psykter neck-amphora

Neck-amphorae

Oinochoai

Olpai

Oinochoai, shape III (choes)

Oinochoai, shape I

Lekythoi

Shoulder type

Sub-Deianeira shape

Aryballos

Drinking vessels

Mastoid

Cup-skyphos

Band-cups

Lip-cup

Cups of type A

Special cups, approximating type B

Appendix 1.

Signature by Amasis as potter on a vase not painted by the Amasis Painter

Appendix 2.

Signatures of Kleophrades, son of Amasis, on two cups in the Getty Museum

Appendix 3.

Shapes of vases painted by the Amasis Painter

Appendix 4.

Tripod-pyxis from the sanctuary of Aphaia on Aegina

Martha Ohly-Dumm

Chronology

Glossary

Concordances

Illustration Credits

About the Authors

Dietrich von Bothmer is chairman of the Department of Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Alan L. Boegehold is professor of classics at Brown University.