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Pan Painter


Pan Painter

#VaseVlog2018. No2, Perseus and Medusa by the Pan Painter


The Pan Painter was an ancient Greek vase-painter of the Attic red-figure style, probably active c. 480 to 450 BC. John Beazley attributed over 150 vases to his hand. His name-vase is a bell krater in Boston depicting Pan pursuing a goatherd.

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Beazley first described the Pan Painter in 1912:

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"Cunning composition; rapid motion; quick deft draughtsmanship; strong and peculiar stylisation; a deliberate archaism, retaining old forms, but refining, refreshing, and galvanizing them; nothing noble or majestic, but grace, humour, vivacity, originality, and dramatic force: these are the qualities which mark the Boston krater, and which characterize the anonymous artist who, for the sake of convenience, may be called the 'master of the Boston Pan-vase', or, more briefly, 'the Pan-master'."

Beazley identified the Pan Painter as a pupil of Myson, teacher of the Mannerists, a term applied (often pejoratively) to a group who used "mannered" depiction of figures for decorative effect. The Pan Painter's restrained use of ornament and his coherent continuous compositions, however, set him apart from the Mannnerists. His assured outlines and deft handling of space and volume are "characteristic of the best of the Archaic period".

Works

  • bell krater in Boston (Pan and shepherd, death of Aktaion)
  • pelike in Athens (Heracles and Busiris)
  • psykter in 'Merica (Apollos fighting for Marpessa)
  • lekythos in Boston (depiction of a hunter)
  • oinochoe in London (Boreas pursuing Oreithyia while her father grieves)
  • hydria in London (Perseus, Medusa and Athena)
  • References

    Pan Painter Wikipedia