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Myson
Type A amphora showing Croesus at the pyre, from 500-490 BC, by Myson. The B side depicts the abduction of Antiope. Located in the Louvre, G197.
StyleRed-figure
MovementTeacher of the Mannerists

Myson (Αncient Greek: Μυσον) was an ancient Greek red figure vase painter and potter active in Athens during the first half of the 5th Century BC. His speciality was column kraters.[1] He has been identified as a precursor to the Mannerist group of Greek vase painters and his workshop, founded around 500 BC, employed the early mannerists.[2] Myson may have learned his craft in the workshop of one of the Pioneer Group, perhaps Phintias.[3] Before 500 BC, he may have worked on cups, with one naming Leagros.[4] He is also considered a tutor of the Pan Painter,[5] as well as the Seesaw Painter.[6] A single egraphsen signature from a vase on the Acropolis was used to identify Myson, and Beazley subsequently assigned 30 vases to Myson's hand through style.[7] Hobbin observed that a break on the Acropolis fragment before the 'M' suggests that Myson may not be his complete name.[8]

Style

Most of Myson's scenes are of athletes and Dionysiac revelry,[9] and his style is usually considered to be conservative.[10] His figures of athletes typically have small heads, are tight-lipped and slim sharp noses.[11] A calyx krater with Apollo represents some possible uncertainty about anatomy.[12] Beazley characterises Myson's method as a 'sound archaic style' and as similar in style to the Eucharides Painter.[13]

Creative decisions chosen by Myson reflect similar choices by the Nikoxenos Painter, who taught the Eucharides Painter. For instance, the decision to use a lotus-bud, dot-net, and reserved line as borders for a panel was used in pelikai by both.[14]

Works

Fragment of a column krater by Myson. The neck of side B bears the inscription MYSON EGRAPHSEN KA(i e)POIESEN (as a votive gift to Athena). ca. 490 BC. Athens Akropolis Museum, 806.

Amphora, Louvre, G197.[15] The 'Croesus on the Pyre' vase. Widely considered his best work.[16][17] The frameless design for this vase echoes a similar decision sometimes taken by the Berlin Painter, which might show a particular importance for this work.[18]

Calyx krater, British Museum, 1842,0822.1. Likely purchased from Flavien de Magnoncour [fr] (1800-1875).[19]

Calyx krater, Munich Staatliche Antikensammlung, 3257.[20]

Column krater, University of Pennsylvania, MS5688. Gift of Nina C. Lea from 1921.[21][22]

Column krater, Acropolis Museum, 806. Found in 1886 found east of the Parthenon in fragments, pieced together and partially restored.[23]

Pelike of Herakles destroying the household of Nereus on side A. Side B shows Nereus´ female servant armed with a pestle. ca. 490 BC. Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 8762.

Pelike, Munich Staatliche Antikensammlung, 8672.[24]

Terracotta column krater, Metropolitan Museum, 56.171.45.[25]

Influence

Sourvinou-Inwood argues that the Pan Painter was likely a 'shop-boy' working in Myson's workshop, although he was an apprentice under the Berlin Painter.[26]

Beazley believed other early Mannerists, including the Agrigento Painter, the Pig Painter, the Painter of London 95 and the Perseus Painter were all influenced by Myson.[27] He identifies the Diogenes Painter as being influenced by Myson, but as 'outstripping' his work.[28]

References

  1. ^ British Museum Collection 59543
  2. ^ Thomas Mannack, The late Mannerists in Athenian vase-painting. Oxford monographs on classical archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
  3. ^ Getty Museum Website collection/person/103JPK
  4. ^ John Boardman, Athenian Red-figure vases in the archaic period, 112.
  5. ^ Beazley, Attic Red Figure Vases. p. 550.
  6. ^ Beazley, ARV. p. 552.
  7. ^ A handbook of Attic red-figured vases signed by or attributed to the various masters of the sixth and fifth centuries B. C. Volume 2 by Hoppin, Joseph Clark, 1919, pg. 206. https://archive.org/
  8. ^ ibid.
  9. ^ Hoppin 2, 211.
  10. ^ Boardman 112.
  11. ^ ibid.
  12. ^ ibid. 113.
  13. ^ Beazley, ARV. p. 552.
  14. ^ Perseus wesbite discussion on the topic 3D79
  15. ^ Oxford Classical Archaeology Research Centre Pagecarc
  16. ^ Hoppin 2, 206.
  17. ^ Beazley, ARV. 552.
  18. ^ Oxford Classical Archaeology Research Centrecarc
  19. ^ British Museum Biography G59362
  20. ^ Oxford Classical Archaeology Research Centre Website Introduction-to-Greek-Pottery/Shapes/Amphorae
  21. ^ Pennsylvania Museum Wesbite object/135701
  22. ^ Perseus Wesbite Article object=Vase
  23. ^ Acropolis Museum Website section on the fragments krater-fragments
  24. ^ Oxford Classical Archaeology Research Centre Website[1]
  25. ^ Metropolitan Museum Website Page collection/search/254903
  26. ^ Sourvinou-Inwood (1975) 109. [2] "Who Was the Teacher of the Pan Painter?"
  27. ^ Beazley, ARV 562-588.
  28. ^ Beazley, ARV 245, 247-248.
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