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The Amasis painter (active around 550 - 510 in Athens) was a Greek Vase painter of the black figure style. He owes his name to the fact that eight of the potter Amasis's manufactured marked work (“Amasis made me”) are painted by the same painter, who we therefore called the Amasis painter. Today approximately 90 works are attributed to him.

In his early works he is still tied at the old traditions with excessively long figures with small heads and angular movements. Contrary to his predecessors he soon began to fill his own work with life and tension. He loosened his figures up and enriched it at the same time created new composition forms. The trigger for this change was most likely around 540 BCE. when imported red figure painting appeared with their new representation possibilities, from which he was obviously inspired. He took over from the young red figure painters richer ornamentation and transferred it, as far as possible, to his black figure painting. Contrary to some younger contemporaries, like the Andokides Painter, whom he perhaps influenced, he held to the black figure style and did not change over. Nevertheless he seems to have occasionally attempted the red figure style.

• Athen, Akropolismuseum

Pinax 2510

• Berlin, Antikensammlung

Bauchamphora F 1688 • Amphora F 1691 • Fragment einer Bauchamphora F 1692

• Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum

Amphora 71.82

• Boston, Museum of Arts

Halsamphora 18026 • Amphora 01.8026 • Amphora 01.8027 • Kylix 10.651

• London, The British Museum

Olpe B 52 • Olpe B 471

• Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum

Schale 79.AE.197

• München, Staatliche Antikensammlung

Bauchamphora 1383 • Amphora 8763

• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bauchamphora 06.1021.69 • Amphora 56.171.10

• Paris, Musée National du Louvre

Schalen-Skyphos A 479 • Amphora F 25 • Amphora F 26 • Oinochoe F 30 • Amphora F 36 • Schale F 75

• Würzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum

Amphora L 265

• John Beazley: Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1956
• Dietrich von Bothmer: The Amasis Painter and his world. Vase-painting in 6. century B.C. Athens. Malibu, Calif., J. Paul Getty Museum 1985. ISBN 0-500-23443-4, ISBN 0-89236-086-0
• Papers on the Amasis painter and his world. Colloquium sponsored by the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities and symposium sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum. Malibu, Calif., J. Paul Getty Museum 1987. ISBN 0-89236-093-3

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