Amasis Painter

Amasis Painter
Heracles entering Mount Olympus, olpe by the Amasis Painter, dated to within 550–530 BC. Inscription: AMASIS MEΠOIESEN, Amasis m'epoiesen, "Amasis made (me)". Located in the Louvre Museum, Paris.
Born
Amasis

Before 550 BC
Athens or Egypt
DiedAbout 510 BC
NationalityGreek or Egyptian
Known forVase painting
Notable workAbout 90 vase paintings
MovementBlack-figure style
Patron(s)Possibly Solon, if he was from Egypt
Dionysus and two Maenads, one holding a hare. Side B from an Ancient Greek Attic black-figure neck-amphora, ca. 550–530 BC, from Vulci. Inscription: ΔΙΟΝVSOS ("Dionysos"), AMASIS MEΠOIESEN (Amasis mepoiesen, "Amasis made me"). Cabinet des médailles de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

The Amasis Painter (active around 550–510 BC[1] in Athens) was an ancient Greek vase painter who worked in the black-figure technique. He owes his name to the signature of the potter Amasis ("Amasis made me"), who signed twelve works painted by the same hand.[2] At the time of the exhibition, "The Amasis Painter and His World" (1985), 132 vases had been attributed to this artist.[3]

  1. ^ "The Amasis Painter", The Journal of Hellenic Studies Vol. 78 (1958), pp. 1-3
  2. ^ J. D. Beazley, The Development of Attic Black-Figure, updated by Dietrich von Bothmer and Mary Moore (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), 52.
  3. ^ Dietrich von Bothmer, The Amasis Painter and His World: Vase-Painting in Sixth-Century B.C. Athens (New York and London: Thames and Hudson, and Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1985), 11.