Meleager Painter
Illustration — Two athletes. Tondo of a bowl, circa 400/375 BC. Paris, Louvre The Meleager Painter was an ancient Greek vase painter of the Attic red-figure style. He was active in the first third of the 4th century BC. The Meleager Painter followed a tradition started by a group of slightly earlier artists, such as the Mikion Painter.
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Meleager Painter
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- Born
- 400
- Died
- 301
- Nationality
- Classical Athens
- Occupation
- attic vase-painter · painter
- Languages
- Ancient Greek
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Illustration — Two athletes. Tondo of a bowl, circa 400/375 BC. Paris, Louvre The Meleager Painter was an ancient Greek vase painter of the Attic red-figure style. He was active in the first third of the 4th century BC. The Meleager Painter followed a tradition started by a group of slightly earlier artists, such as the Mikion Painter.
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He is probably the most important painter of his generation. He painted a wide variety of vase shapes, including even kylikes, a rarity among his contemporaries. • Illustration — The Calydonian boar hunt on his name vase: Atalante seated, flanked by Meleagros and perhaps Tydeus, Nolan amphora, circa 300/375 BC. Athens, National Archaeological Museum His conventional name is derived from several vases depicting hunters, including Atalante and her lover Meleagros. Colonette kraters and bell kraters by him normally bear Dionysiac motifs. Like other painters of his time, he liked to paint figures wearing oriental garb. The tondos inside his kylikes are often framed by wreaths. They mostly depict groups of deities or individual gods. The outsides of kylikes and the paintings on the backs of other vases by him are often of inferior quality.
The recorded working language is Ancient Greek. Places of work recorded in the authority are Kerameikos. Work by Meleager Painter is recorded in the collections of J. Paul Getty Museum, Martin von Wagner Museum and Michael C.
This red-figure kylix depicts a maenad and a satyr in the tondo. On the left a maenad sits on a rock to the left, looking around. Her left arm is by her side, while the right is bent up in front. She wears a necklace, peplos, diadem, and earring. On the right a wreathed satyr leans to the left; his left hand grasps her upper left arm, his right is wrapped around her back. On the sides are depicted
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Red-figure kylix from Athens by the Meleager Painter, early 4th century BCE, terracotta, California Palace of the Legion of Honor
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301
Meleager Painter died.
400
Meleager Painter born.
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- John D. Beazley. Attic Red Figure Vase Painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.
- John Boardman. Rotfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Die klassische Zeit, Philipp von Zabern, Mainz, 1991 (Kulturgeschichte der Antiken Welt, Band 48), besonders, p. 176 .
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