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The Mesogeia Painter, also Mesogaia Painter, was an Early Proto-Attic vase painter.
His conventional name is derived from his
The Mesogeia Painter, also Mesogaia Painter, was an Early Proto-Attic vase painter.
His conventional name is derived from his name vase
In classical archaeology, a name vase is a specific "vase"In the study of ancient Greek pottery a "vase" is a general term covering all pottery shapes. whose painter's name is unknown but whose workshop style has been identified. The painter is c ...
s, several ''hydria
The hydria (; : hydriai) is a form of Greek pottery from between the Geometric art, late Geometric period (7th century BC) and the Hellenistic period (3rd century BC). The etymology of the word hydria was first noted when it was stamped on a ...
i'' decorated by him and discovered in the Mesogeia
The Mesogeia or Mesogaia (, "Midlands") is a geographical region of Attica in Greece.
History
The term designates since antiquity the inland portion of the Attic peninsula. The term acquired a technical meaning with the reforms of Cleisthenes in ...
. This Early Proto-Attic artist was a contemporary of the Analatos Painter
The Analatos Painter was an Attica, Attic vase painter of the Early Proto-Attic vase painting, Proto-Attic style.
The name of the Analatos Painter is derived from the central Attic area of Analatos (today Nea Smyrni), where several of his wor ...
, active in the first quarter of the seventh century BC. It has been suggested that he was a pupil of the Late Geometric Statathou Painter, and the teacher of the High Proto-Attic Polyphemos Painter.
Literature
*Thomas Mannack
Thomas Mannack (born in 1958) is a German classical archaeologist.
Mannack obtained his doctorate in 1992 with at the University of Kiel. The thema of his dissertation was ''Beazleys spätere und späteste Manieristen''. The thesis was later p ...
in ''Griechische Vasenmalerei. Eine Einführung'', Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, p. 135
* Cynthia King: ''More Pots by the Mesogeia Painter'', in: ''American Journal of Archaeology
The ''American Journal of Archaeology'' (AJA), the peer-reviewed journal of the Archaeological Institute of America, has been published since 1897 (continuing the ''American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts'' founded by t ...
'', Vol 80 (1976), p. 79-82
See also
*List of Greek vase painters
The following is a list of ancient Greek vase painters who have been identified either by name or by style. Because of the research of academics like John Davidson Beazley, Arthur Dale Trendall, Robert Manuel Cook, Darrell A. Amyx and Conrad ...
* Orientalizing period
The Orientalizing period or Orientalizing revolution is an art historical period that began during the later part of the 8th century BC, when art of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Ancient Near East heavily influenced nearby Mediterranean ...
* Pottery of ancient Greece
Pottery, due to its relative durability, comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient Greece, and since there is so much of it (over 100,000 painted vases are recorded in the Corpus vasorum antiquorum), it has exerted a dispro ...
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7th-century BC Greek people
Ancient Greek vase painters
Anonymous artists of antiquity
People from Attica
Year of birth unknown