Wedding Painter

A man and a hetaera (her status indicated by the money-bag hanging from the wall) having sexual intercourse. Interior painting of a red-figure kylix, ca. 480/470 BC. Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen.

The Wedding painter's name vase, a pyxis, ca.470/460 BC. Louvre L 55.

Wedding Painter is the conventional name for an ancient Greek vase painter active in Athens from circa 480 to 460 BC. He painted in the red-figure technique. His name vase is pyxis in the Louvre (Paris). It depicts the wedding of Thetis and Peleus.

Works

Athen, National Archaeological Museum

krater 1388 • pyxis 14908

Barcelona, Museo Arqueologico

fragment of a bowl 584 • fragment of a bowl stand 4339

Berkeley, University of California, Robert H. Lowie Museum

bowl 924 A

Berlin, Antikensammlung

lip cup F 2547

Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico

fragment of a bowl 373 • bowl 374

Bonn, Akademisches Kunstmuseum

bowl 144 A

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts

bell krater 95.26

Chiusi, Museo Archeologico Nazionale

bowl 1845

Compiègne, Musee Vivenel

bowl 1090 • bowl 1104

Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina

skyphos T 441

Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco

fragment of a bowl 11 B 10 • fragment of a bowl 17 B 7 • fragment of a bowl 20 B 11 • fragment of a bowl PD 28 • fragment of a bowl PD 172 • fragment of a bowl PD 289 • fragment of a bowl PD 563

Freiburg, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität

Fragment of a bowl

London, British Museum

hydria E 226

formerly Munich, private collection Paul Arndt

bowls

formerly New Haven, Clairmont

pyxis

New York, Metropolitan Museum

pyxis 39.11.8

Padula, Salerno, Museo Archeologico della Lucania Occidentale nella Certosa di Padula

Fragment of a bowl stand

Paris, Musée National du Louvre

bowl CP 10952 • fragment of a bowl CP 11605 • fragment of a bowl CP 11606 • fragment of a bowl CP 11607 • fragment of a bowl CP 11608 • fragment of a bowl CP 11609 • fragment of a bowl CP 11610 • fragment of a bowl CP 11611 • bowl G 269 • bowl G 630 • pyxis L 55

Prague, Charles University

lekythos 22.62

Reggio Calabria, Museo Nazionale

2 fragments of bowls • fragment of a skyphos

Thessaloniki, Archaeological Museum

fragment of a kantharos 34.157

Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum

bell krater 1771 • bowl 2150

Winchester, College Museum

bowl 71

Bibliography

John Beazley: Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 2nd ed. Oxford 1963, p. 922-924.

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Pottery of ancient Greece

Wine vessel shapes	Dinos Kotyle Krater Kyathos Psykter Rhyton Skyphos

Tableware	Eye-cup Kantharos Kylix Oenochoe Olpe Patera Pinakion

Perfume, oil, and wedding shapes	Alabastron Aryballos Askos Lebes Gamikos Lekythos Loutrophoros Lydion Pyxis Stirrup jar

Funerary shapes and cultic shapes	Kernos Lekythos Loutrophoros Phiale

Storage shapes	Amphora Hydria Kalathos Kalpis Lebes Pelike Pithos Stamnos

Utilitarian ceramics	Chuta Epinetron Luchnos Situla

Techniques	Bilingual pottery Black-figure Bucchero Red-figure Six's technique Three-phase firing White-ground

Styles	Ancient Greek vase-painting styles

Potters and painters	List of Greek potters List of Greek vase painters List of Little Masters Name vase

Museums noted for pottery	Athens Basel und Ludwig Berlin Bodrum British Edinburgh Getty Heraklion Louvre Thera Ure Vatican Walters

Writers and books	Adolf Furtwängler Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Dietrich von Bothmer Edmond Pottier John Beazley John Boardman Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae

Special topics in Greek pottery	Frying pans Kalos inscription Nikosthenic amphora Panathenaic amphora Symposium Typology

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