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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 co ...
s, several ''hydria
The hydria ( el, ὑδρία; plural hydriai) is a form of Greek pottery from between the 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 o ...
i'' decorated by him and discovered in the Mesogeia
The Mesogeia or Mesogaia ( el, τα Μεσόγεια, η Μεσόγαια/Μεσογαία, "Midlands") is a geographical region of Attica in Greece.
History
The term designates since antiquity the inland portion of the Attic peninsula. The term a ...
. This Early Proto-Attic artist was a contemporary of the Analatos Painter, 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
The Polyphemos Painter (or Polyphemus Painter) was a high Proto-Attic vase painter, active in Athens or on Aegina. He is considered an innovator in Attic art, since he introduced several mythological themes. His works are dated to between 670 an ...
.
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
Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-U ...
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 ...
'', Vol 80 (1976), p. 79-82
See also
*List of Greek vase painters
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* Orientalizing period
* Pottery of ancient Greece
Ancient Greek 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 ex ...
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7th-century BC Greek people
Ancient Greek vase painters
Anonymous artists of antiquity
People from Attica