The Bryn Mawr Painter is the name given to an Attic Greek

red-figure Red-figure vase painting is one of the most important styles of figural Greek vase painting. It developed in Athens around 520 BCE and remained in use until the late 3rd century BCE. It replaced the previously dominant style of black-figure va ...

vase painter, active in the late Archaic period (c. 500 – 480 BCE). Attic Red-Figure Plate

Name artefact

The Bryn Mawr Painter was named by Sir

John Beazley Sir John Davidson Beazley, (; 13 September 1885 – 6 May 1970) was a British classical archaeologist and art historian, known for his classification of Attic vases by artistic style. He was Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the Un ...

for a plate in the

Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh: ) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United ...

Art and Artifact Collections (the Bryn Mawr Painter's ''namepiece''). Interior: A reclining male figure, draped from the waist down, leans against a doubled-over bolster. With the forefinger of his outstretched right hand, he holds a kylix by the handle. A wreath, now so worn as to be all but invisible, dangles from his left hand. Hanging on the wall at his feet is a flute case of spotted animal skin. The figure is a participant in a Greek symposium (drinking party) and is shown playing the popular game of

kottabos Kottabos ( grc, κότταβος) was a game of skill played at Ancient Greek and Etruscan symposia (drinking parties), especially in the 6th and 5th centuries BC. It involved flinging wine-lees (sediment) at a target in the middle of the ro ...

, in which contestants attempted to hit various types of targets with wine dregs flung from the bottom of a kylix. A

kalos inscription A ''kalos'' inscription (''καλός'') is a form of epigraph found on Attic vases and graffiti in antiquity, mainly during the Classical period from 550 to 450 BC. The word ''kalos'' (καλός) means "beautiful", and in the inscriptions it ...

reading "HO PAIS KALOS" ("the boy is beautiful") appears above the head and knee of the symposiast. Exterior: Reserved except for black glaze on the base ring and in a wide circular band in the center of the plate.

References

Sources

TriArte: Art & Artifacts Database – The Bryn Mawr Painter
*Joseph Clark Hoppin. ''A Handbook of Attic Red-Figured Vases''. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1919. p. 1 & 280, Fig. 61.

External links

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