Kachrylion
Illustration — Rider on a red-figure kylix by Kachrylion and Euphronios Kachrylion was a potter of Greek red-figure pottery at the end of the 6th and the beginning of the 5th century BC. At his pottery had worked some of the most important Attic-Greek vase painters of these times, such as Euphronios and Oltos. He signed 29 kylixes and one plate.
Kachrylion
sailko · I, Sailko · Own work. Image renamed from File:Kylix da orvieto, vasaio Kachrylion, 510-500 ac..JPG · CC BY 2.5
- Born
- 600 · Attica.
- Died
- 500 · Attica.
- Nationality
- Classical Athens
- Occupation
- entrepreneur · potter · ceramicist
- Fields
- Greek vases · kylix · red-figure pottery · Intentional Red
- Movements
- Archaic Greek sculpture
- Languages
- Ancient Greek
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Illustration — Rider on a red-figure kylix by Kachrylion and Euphronios Kachrylion was a potter of Greek red-figure pottery at the end of the 6th and the beginning of the 5th century BC. At his pottery had worked some of the most important Attic-Greek vase painters of these times, such as Euphronios and Oltos. He signed 29 kylixes and one plate.
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Kachrylion died at Attica.
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Kachrylion born at Attica.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1024880842, Kachrylion.
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Euphronios is recorded as having studied under Kachrylion. The recorded working language is Ancient Greek. The field of work recorded is Greek vases, kylix and red-figure pottery. Places of work recorded in the authority are Kerameikos. Residence is recorded at Classical Athens. Work by Kachrylion is recorded in the collections of J. Paul Getty Museum.
• John Beazley: Attic Red-figure Vase-painters 2nd ed. Oxford 1963, S. 107-109.
Eros flying above the sea and holding a flower (love gift). Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix by Kachrylion (potter), ca. 510–500 B.C. Archaeological Museum of Florence, Inv. 91456. Beazley, ARV² 108/27. From Orvieto.
sailko · I, Sailko · Own work. Image renamed from File:Kylix da orvieto, vasaio Kachrylion, 510-500 ac. eros in volo sul mare.JPG
![Dugald Sutherland MacColl (British draftsman, 1859-1948) 1894 50 cm (height) x 44 cm (width) Drawing after an Attic red-figure kylix by Euphronios (painter) and Kachrylion (potter), in the collection of the Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich [2620 (337)]. Published in Harrison, Jane Ellen and D.S. MacColl. Greek vase paintings; a selection of examples, with preface, introduction and descriptions](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Herakles_and_Geryon%3B_synthesized_drawing_after_interior_tondo_and_exterior_of_an_Attic_red-figure_kylix_%288269416055%29.jpg/800px-Herakles_and_Geryon%3B_synthesized_drawing_after_interior_tondo_and_exterior_of_an_Attic_red-figure_kylix_%288269416055%29.jpg)
Dugald Sutherland MacColl (British draftsman, 1859-1948) 1894 50 cm (height) x 44 cm (width) Drawing after an Attic red-figure kylix by Euphronios (painter) and Kachrylion (potter), in the collection of the Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich [2620 (337)]. Published in Harrison, Jane Ellen and D.S. MacColl. Greek vase paintings; a selection of examples, with preface, introduction and descriptions
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- 1.le muse. De Agostini. II. 1964.
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Formation and teaching. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style. Kachrylion worked in Greek vases, kylix, red-figure pottery and Intentional Red. His work is associated with Archaic Greek sculpture. He worked at Kerameikos and Classical Athens.
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