Euphronios

Euphronios is a potter and ceramic painter in living at the end of sixth century BC and first half of fifth century BC to Athens. It belongs to the most famous artists of its time and is known by works of great quality which it signed and which arrived to us.

General context

The ancient Greek pottery has a long story and Euphronios falls under the transition period, which sees the appearance of a new style, more expressive, permitted by a novel method the Céramique red figures, which gradually replaces the preceding technique with black figures as from the years 530 av. J. - C. Déjà, as of the middle of the sixth century BC, the various Greek workshops are supplanted by the workshops of the area of Athens which produce the Céramique attic in which Euphronios exerts its Article.

Historical elements

Few things are known life of Euphronios, only its signatures and its recognizable style makes it possible to locate it chronologically. Pioneer and virtuoso of the technique to red figures , one knows six of his works signed as a painter ( euphronios égraphsen , “Euphronios painted”) and a score of others are allotted to him by the style. Ten other ceramics is signed as a potter ( euphronios époiésen , “Euphronios manufactured”), and is decorated by other artists. It appears, by the relative datings, that Euphronios would have initially been painter decorator, then become old and less skilful, would have perhaps finished its career as foreman and potter. An inscription on the basis of votive stele destroyed on the Acropole of Athens carries the inscription Euprhonios kérameus (“Euphronios ceramist”), and accredits the thesis of the reputation and the fortune of this workshop.

Artistic style

Euphronios is inconstablement a major artist of the time and a remarkable draftsman who will be able to open out with the finer and expressive technique of ceramics with red figures. It surely painted large numbers of parts which for the majority are lost. One however notices a predilection for the vases of big size, Amphore S and crater S. It draws its inspiration as much in topics inspired of the daily life, beautiful young men with the Palestre or making their toilet, that in the mythological subjects epic and such as for example the exploits of Héraclès which it illustrates of many times.

In all the cases, its style is recognizable by the virtuosity and the precision of the drawing. It particularly sticks to reproduce the details thoroughly, in particular the precision of the anatomy of its characters, generally represented naked. It endeavors to represent the maximum of muscles in action, sometimes making think of true sectional views of anatomy. He also seeks to work the variety of the visual angles, the diversity of the attitudes and the composition of scenes with multiple characters on a circular surface. He decorates also his compositions of handwritten mentions, the name of the characters represented, real or mythological, and, on many vases, an acclamation praising the beauty of the beautiful young men of his time, particularly certain Léagros, killed in a battle.

Some famous works of Euphronios

The cultural televisual magazine Palettes devoted an emission on Euphronios: Euphronios painted. Crater of Héraclès and Antée (6th century before J. - C.) of Alain Jaubert and Pascale Vimenet (1991) 30 min 10/23/94 (ARTE) and 8/12/2000 (History) (Published in 1992) - It is about a detailed study of the crater of the museum of Louvre.

Other artists contemporary ceramists (preclassical time)

  • Peintres whose names are known:

    • Euthymidès,
    • Onésimos,
    • Phintias,
    • Smicros,
    • Douris,
    • Oltos;
  • Painters known by the name of the workshop of pottery:
    • the Painter of Andokidès,
    • the Painter of Pistoxénos,
    • the Painter of Brygos,
    • the Painter of Kléophradès,
    • the Painter of Brygos;
  • Painters named by a masterly work in a museum, the name of this museum, or a place of discovered:
    • the Painter of Berlin,
    • the Painter of Achilles,
    • the Peintre of Froze,
    • the Peintre of Niobides,
    • the Peintre of Penthésilée.

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