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Oltos
(? - ?)
,
Pamphaïos
(? - ?)
Amphore à figures rouges, nicosthénienne
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Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Hervé Lewandowski
musée du Louvre
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Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais / Hervé Lewandowski
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Keywords:
mythological scene
Greek vase
Red-figure style
amphora
Iliad
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About the artwork
Title:
Amphore à figures rouges, nicosthénienne
Periods:
6th century BC
6th century BC
Techniques:
ceramic (material)
Inventory number:
G3
Detail:
Face A : Ménélas menaçant Hélène. Face B : éducation d'Achille, le centaure Chiron portant Achille enfant. 520-515 av J.-C.
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
Oltos
Country:
Grèce antique
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Oltos
was a Late Archaic Greek vase painter, active in Athens. From the time between 525 BC and 500 BC, about 150 works by him are known. Two pieces, a cup in Berlin (Antikensammlung F 2264) and a cup in Tarquinia (Museo Nazionale Tarquiniese RC 6848), are signed by him as painter. Oltos is thought to have begun his career in the workshop of the potter Nikosthenes. Initially, he mainly painted bilingual vases or bowls with interior black-figure and exterior red-figure decoration. His…
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Author:
Pamphaïos
Country:
Athènes
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Pamphaios
was an Attic vase painter active around the end of the 6th century BC. Pamphaios was the successor of Nikosthenes in that artist's workshop, and thus took over from one of the most influential and creative potters of antiquity. He probably took over the workshop before 510 BC and continued the tradition of his predecessor by producing typical shapes the latter had developed, such as the Nikosthenic amphora, the Nikosthenic pyxis or the Chalkidian style cup. At times, he developed these…
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