Centaur Painter Cups in the State Hermitage museum
The State Hermitage museum owns more than three hundred fifty cups and fragments of Little-Masters cups of all the existing types (without counting floral band-cups). Four of them, including one whole lip-cup and three fragments of lipcups can be attributed to the Centaur Painter - one of the most vivid of the Little-masters. F. Villard defined the Centaur Painter, described the style of painting of this vase-painter in detail, and established the chronology of his activity and attributed nineteen cups and fragments to the painter. J. Beazley and M.F. Jonkees-Vos added more numbers to the Villard's list, while P. Heesen made his own list in 1996, where he included names of the scholars and the vases, which were attributed after 1971 and which, in his opinion, were properly attributed to the Centaur Painter. Cups by the Centaur Painter are small, while decoration usually shows miniature vivid and energetic figures of men and animals with thoroughly incised details, involved in different kinds of pursuit. A certain set of incisions and rich use of added colours are typical for the painter. The style of painting and the shape of the cups allow dating cups and fragments by the Centaur Painter as 545-530 BC. The whole cup (Б.88 in the State Hermitage museum) of Beazley's LO type is decorated with a figure of a naked running man with a spear in his right hand and a cloak over his left arm, placed in the middle of the lip on each side of the cup. On one of the fragments (Б.71-165) a running naked man with a stick is depicted, on the second fragment (Б.482) a prancing goat is preserved and on the third fragment (Б.66-92) there is a running centaur with stones in his hands. All the four items can be identified as typical for the Centaur Painter in their style of painting, drawing of incisions, character of applying of added colours and theirsubjects. As far as all the items were found on Berezan island during archaeological excavations of different years it adds some moredata to the problem of distribution of the cups by the Centaur Painter in the ancient world.
Keywords
formal-stylistic analysis,
attribution of the black-figured pottery,
the Centaur Painter,
формально-стилистический анализ,
атрибуция чернофигурной керамики,
Мастер кентавраAuthors
| Petrakova Anna Ye. | The State Hermitage Museum (Saint-Petersburg) | petrakova.anna@gmail.com |
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