Eucharides Painter ( grc-gre, Εὐχαρίδης) is the common nickname of an ancient Greek artist who decorated but did not sign Attic vases. Neither his real name, nor the dates of his birth and death are known. Presumably this artist was a pupil of the
Nikoxenos Painter
The Nikoxenos Painter ( grc-gre, Νικόξενος) was an Attic vase painter who worked in both the black-figure and red-figure styles. He was active in the end of the sixth and the beginning of the fifth centuries BC. His real name is not know ...
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The name was introduced in 1911 by
John Beazley, a classical historian at the
University of Oxford, who had a special interest in Attic vases. Through close examination of stylistic details, Beazley and other scholars recognized pieces painted by the same artist. In this case, the nickname appreciates the anonymous painter's repeated use of
kalos inscriptions praising the beauty of a named young boy. A vase with the inscription ΚΑΛΟΣ ΕΥΧΑΡΙΔΕΣ ("kalos Eucharides", i.e. Eucharides is beautiful) became the source of the artist's name.
The Eucharides Painter was working in Athens in the years from about 500 BC to 470 BC. At this time the technique of vase painting switched from
black-figure to
red-figure illustrations, a process commonly attributed to the
Andokides Painter
Andokides was an ancient Athenian vase painter, active from approximately 530 to 515 B.C. His work is unsigned and his true name unknown. He was identified as a unique artistic personality through stylistic traits found in common among several pai ...
. Correspondingly, both black-figured and red-figured vases are attributed to the Eucharides Painter. Their shapes range from large kraters to small cups. Scenes were drawn from mythology and daily life.
Many of this artist's known works were retrieved from Etruscan tombs in Italy. Recently, one of his attic vases was claimed to be looted and was repossessed by the Italian State.
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Vases
Examples of Attic vases attributed to the Eucharides Painter are on display around the world, e.g.:
* Getty Museum, Malibu, California, USA (no. 86.AE.227). Attic red-figure water jar illustrating a young boy and a reveller with the eponymous inscription
Kalos Eucharides
(Beazley Archive Database Number 275122)
* Vatican City
(no. H545) Attic red-figure hygria illustrating a scene from
Homer´s
Iliadthe killing of Hektor by Achilles (Beazley Archive Vase Number 202267)
* London, British Museum (no. B178). Attic black-figured amphora illustrating Dionysos with Ivy and Kantharos between Satyrs. (Beazley Archive Vase Number 302996).
* Paris, Musée du Louvre. Attic red-figure amphora illustratin
Satyre et Menade
* St. Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum. (Inv. No. Б. 2604). Attic red-figure hydria-kalpis illustratin
* Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe. Attic red-figure wine amphora illustratin
the killing of Argos by Hermes
* Bremen
Antikenmuseumim Schnoor/ Sammlung Zimmermann.
Black-figured pseudo-panathenaic amphora.
* Copenhagen, National Museum Attic red-figured stamnos illustrating a Woman with a Mirror, a Seated Youth Looks at a Dog. Inscription.
Beazley Archive Database Number 202230
Literature
*Beazley, J. D., ''Attic Red figured Vase Painters'', 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963)
ARV²*Beazley, J. D., ''Attic Black-figure Vase-painters'' (Oxford, 1956)
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5th-century BC Athenians
Ancient Greek vase painters