Oltos
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Oltos | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Vase painter |
| Years active | c.525 BC to c. 500 BC |
| Style | Initially bilingual, later red-figure |
Oltoswas a LateArchaicGreekvase painter, active inAthensfrom 525 BC to 500 BC. About 150 works by him are known. Two pieces, a cup inBerlin(AntikensammlungF 2264) and a cup inTarquinia(Museo Nazionale Tarquiniese RC 6848), are signed by him as painter.[1]
Overview
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Oltos is thought to have begun his career in the workshop of the potterNikosthenes.Initially, he mainly paintedbilingual vases or bowlswith interiorblack-figureand exteriorred-figuredecoration.[2]His black-figure style was influenced byPsiaxand theAntimenes Painter.[1]No pure black-figure works by Oltos are yet known. Histondosusually depict a single figure. They are often full of tension, frequently with differential directions of gaze and movement. Later, he exclusively painted red-figure, influenced especially by theAndokides Painteras well as several members of thePioneer Group,especially his former pupilEuphronios.
His drawing style was spacious and elegant, but never reached the depth of detail of his most important contemporary masters. He had a distinctive tendency towards luxurious ornamentation and symmetric compositions. In the middle of his career he concentrated especially on the depiction of mythological scenes. Over time, he worked with several different potters. We know of at least six:Hischylos,most importantlyPamphaios,with whom he created the earliest knownstamnos,Tleson,Chelis, and finallyKachrylion,for whom he worked together with Euphronios, as well asEuxitheos.
An innovation introduced by Oltos is found on anamphoraatLondon(British MuseumE 258). Here, he depicts a single figure, with no frame or floor line.[3]
Selected works
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- Altenburg,Staatliches Lindenau-Museum – bowl 224
- Baltimore,Johns Hopkins UniversityMuseum – fragment of a kylix AIA B1
- Basel,Antikensammlung and Sammlung Ludwig – bowl BS 459
- Berlin,Antikensammlung– bowl F 2263 • bowl F 2264 • phiale F 2310 • bowl F 4220 • bowl F 4221
- Boston,Museum of Fine Arts– kylix 13.83 • fragment of a kylix 08.31d • fragment 10.219
- Brunswick,Bowdoin College Museum of Art– fragment of a kylix 1913.14
- Chicago,University of Chicago(David and Alfred Smart Gallery) – kylix 1967.115
- Fayetteville,The University Museum – kylix 56.25.15
- London,The British Museum– kylix E 41 • amphora E 258 • stamnos E 437
- Malibu,J. Paul Getty Museum– kylix 86.AE.276 • kylix 86.AE.277
- Mount Holyoke,Mount Holyoke College Art Museum– kylix 1967.BS.II.11
- Munich,Staatliche Antikensammlungen– bowl 25 93 • bowl 2618
- New York,Metropolitan Museum of Art– psykter 1989.281.69
- Paris,Musée National duLouvre– fragment CA 3662 • amphora G 2 • amphora G 3
- Tarquinia,Museo Nazionale Tarquiniese – bowl RC 6848
- Vatican,Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano – bowl 498
- Parma,Museo Archeologico Nazionale – kylix (520-510 b.C)
Bibliography
[edit]- Joachim Harnecker:Oltos. Untersuchungen zu Themenwahl und Stil eines früh-rotfigurigen Schalenmalers,Lang, Frankfurt a. M. u. a. 1992,ISBN3-631-43755-2
References
[edit]- ^ab"Collections Online | British Museum".britishmuseum.org.Retrieved2024-02-01.
- ^Finkenstaedt, Elizabeth (1968-10-01)."A Red-Figure Kylix by Oltos at Mount Holyoke College".American Journal of Archaeology.72(4): 383.doi:10.2307/503832.ISSN0002-9114.JSTOR503832.S2CID192990255.
- ^"London E 258 (Vase)".Perseus Hopper.Retrieved2024-02-01.
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