Dionysos, the god of wine, with his son Oenopion, Attic black-figure amphora, dated ca. 540–530 BC, located in the British Museum (B 210)
Born
Exekias
before 550 BC
Probably Athens
Died
About 525 BC
Nationality
Greek
Known for
Vase painting
Notable work
High-quality vases for export and home consumption
Movement
Black-figure style, Group E
Exekias (Ancient Greek: Ἐξηκίας, Exēkías) was an ancient Greek vase painter and potter who was active in Athens between roughly 545 BC and 530 BC.[1] Exekias worked mainly in the black-figure technique, which involved the painting of scenes using a clay slip that fired to black, with details created through incision. Exekias is regarded by art historians as an artistic visionary whose masterful use of incision and psychologically sensitive compositions mark him as one of the greatest of all Attic vase painters.[2] The Andokides painter and the Lysippides Painter are thought to have been students of Exekias.[3]
^John Boardman, "Exekias," American Journal of Archaeology 82 (1978): 13.
^John Boardman, Athenian Black Figure Vases: A Handbook (London: Thames and Hudson, 1974), 52.
^Evelyn Elizabeth Bell, “An Exekian Puzzle in Portland: Further Light on the Relationship between Exekias and Group E,” in Ancient Greek and Art Iconography, ed. Warren G. Moon (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press), 85. Regarding Exekias' relationship to the Lysippides painter see J.D. Beazley,Greek Vases: Lectures by J.D. Beazley, ed. Donna Kurtz (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), 9.
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