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

About this book

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 artists 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 Painters oeuvre has grown to some 330 works both complete pots and fragments making him one of the best-known artists of his kind. This lavishly illustrated publication features nine essays by leading scholars who explore the artists work milieu influence and legacy as well as the role of connoisseurship in art-historical scholarship. With an updated catalogue raisonn that includes many newly attributed works it is the definitive book on this seminal artist.