#amasis painter

[romegreeceart]

Amasis Painter's signature

Attic Black figure olpe, detail from a scene Herakles entering Olympus

550-530 BCE

Amasis mepoiesen (= Amasis made me)

Louvre

Source: Louvre Museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

 © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons

[thecrankyprofessor]

Metropolitan Museum

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), Attributed to the Amasis Painter. Archaic, ca. 550–530 B.C., Attic. Terracotta; black-figure.  Dimensions:H. 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm) Accession Number:56.11.1; Walter C. Baker Gift, 1956

This is evidently the earliest surviving depiction in Greek art of a complete wedding procession. The bride is riding to the groom’s house - and his mother (presumably) is meeting them at the door.

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Black-figure lekythos.

Artist: Amasis Painter

Period: Middle Archaic

Date: 560 - 550 B.C.

Medium: Clay

[themuseumwithoutwalls]

MWW Artwork of the Day (9/2/20) Attributed to the Amasis Painter (Greek, fl. 550-510 BCE) Terracotta Lekythos (Oil Flask)(c. 550–530 BCE) Terracotta black-figure vase, 17.5 cm. high The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Walter C. Baker Gift)

On the shoulder, women dancing between musicians playing flute and lyre. On the body, wedding procession.

This is the earliest and most complete known representation of an Attic wedding. The bridal couple with the best man behind them sit in a cart drawn by two donkeys. A mule cart with four guests follows. Other members of the procession are on foot. The woman in the lead holds two torches, indicating that the scene takes place at night. The procession heads toward the bridegroom's house where a woman, probably the mother of the groom, awaits. The architecture of the house is carefully indicated; the white columns of the porch may be painted wood.

[kutxx]

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The Amasis Painter

Lekythos (Black-figure pottery)

550–530 B.C., terracotta, Metropolitan Museum 

[lostprofile]

ARCHAIC GREEK VASE PAINTING

By 550 B.C., Attic black-figure pottery dominated the export market throughout the Mediterranean region. Athenian vases of the second half of the sixth century B.C. provide a wealth of iconography illuminating numerous aspects of Greek culture, including funerary rites, daily life, symposia, athletics, warfare, religion, and mythology.

Among the great painters of Attic black-figure vases, Sophilos, Kleitias, Nearchos, Lydos, Exekias, and the Amasis Painter experimented with a variety of techniques to overcome the limitations of black-figure painting with its emphasis on silhouette and incised detail. The consequent invention of the red-figure technique, which offered greater opportunities for drawing and eventually superseded black-figure, is conventionally dated about 530 B.C. and attributed to the workshop of the potter Andokides.

[buonfresco]

Attributed to Amasis painter, Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), ca. 550-530 B.C.

"On the shoulder, a seated woman, perhaps a goddess, is approached by four youths and eight dancing maidens On the body, women are making woolen cloth. One of the most important responsibilities of women was the preparation of wool and the weaving of cloth. Here, in the center, two women work at an upright loom. To the right, three women weigh wool. Farther to the right, four women spin wool into yarn, while between them finished cloth is being folded." (x)