Exekias | |
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| Born | Exekias before 550 BC Probably Athens |
| Died | About 525 BC |
| Nationality | Greek |
| Known for | Vase painting |
| Notable work | High-quality vases for export and home consumption |
| Movement | Black-figure style, Group E |
Exekias (Ancient Greek: Ἐξηκίας, Exēkías) was an ancient Greek vase painter and potter who was active in Athens between roughly 545 BC and 530 BC.[1] Exekias worked mainly in the black-figure technique, which involved the painting of scenes using a clay slip that fired to black, with details created through incision. Exekias is regarded by art historians as an artistic visionary whose masterful use of incision and psychologically sensitive compositions mark him as one of the greatest of all Attic vase painters.[2] The Andokides painter and the Lysippides Painter are thought to have been students of Exekias.[3]
- ^ John Boardman, "Exekias," American Journal of Archaeology 82 (1978): 13.
- ^ John Boardman, Athenian Black Figure Vases: A Handbook (London: Thames and Hudson, 1974), 52.
- ^ Evelyn Elizabeth Bell, “An Exekian Puzzle in Portland: Further Light on the Relationship between Exekias and Group E,” in Ancient Greek and Art Iconography, ed. Warren G. Moon (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press), 85. Regarding Exekias' relationship to the Lysippides painter see J.D. Beazley,Greek Vases: Lectures by J.D. Beazley, ed. Donna Kurtz (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), 9.