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The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C.

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The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C. - Padgett, J. Michael (Contributions by), and Guy, J. Robert (Contributions by), and Arrington, Nathan (Contributions by)
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The Berlin Painter was the name given by British classicist and art historian Sir John Beazley to an otherwise anonymous Athenian red-figure vase-painter. The artist's long career extended from about 505 B.C. well into the 460s, and his elegant renderings of daily life and mythological stories offer invaluable insight into the social, political, religious, and artistic workings of early 5th-century Athens. Since the first published identification of the artist in 1911, the Berlin Painter's oeuvre has grown to some 330 ...

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The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C. 2017, Yale University Press

ISBN-13: 9780300225938

Hardcover