Euthymides

Hector putting his armor on, side A of a red-figure paunch amphora, 510–500 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 2308).

Euthymides was an ancient Athenian potter and painter of vases, primarily active between 515 and 500 BC. He was a member of the Greek art movement later to be known as "The Pioneers" for their exploration of the new decorative style known as red-figure pottery.^[1] Euthymides was the teacher of another Athenian red-figure vase painter, the Kleophrades Painter.^[2]

Euthymides was admired for his portrayal of human movement and studies of perspective, his painted figures being amongst the first to show foreshortened limbs. He was more minimalist than others in the movement, and his tendency was to draw relatively few figures, and only rarely overlap them.

His works were normally inscribed "Euthymides painted me". Euthymides was a rival of his fellow Athenian Euphronios, and one of his amphorae is additionally marked with the playful taunt "hos oudepote Euphronios", words which have been variously interpreted as "as never Euphronios [could do]",^[3] or "this wasn't one of Euphronios".

Only eight vessels signed by Euthymides survive, six signed as painter, and two as potter. His most famous work is probably The Revelers Vase, an amphora depicting three men partying. They are presumably drunk; one of them is holding a kantharos, a large drinking vessel.

References

↑ Papadopoulos, John K.; Camp, John McK.; De Jong, Piet (2007). The Art of Antiquity. ASCSA. p. 204. ISBN 978-0-87661-960-5. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)
↑ Clark, Andrew J.; Elston, Maya; Hart, Marie Louise (2002). Understanding Greek Vases. Getty Publications, p. 40.ISBN 0-89236-599-4.
↑ Hurwit, Jeffrey M. (1985). The Art and Culture of Early Greece. Cornell University Press. p. 281. ISBN 978-0-8014-9401-7.

Further Reading:

Phillipe De Montebello (1994). The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. (see index)

External Links:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide, a collection catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art containing information on Euthymides (page 321)

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Pottery of ancient Greece

Wine vessel shapes	Dinos Kotyle Krater Kyathos Psykter Rhyton Skyphos

Tableware	Eye-cup Kantharos Kylix Oenochoe Olpe Patera Pinakion

Perfume, oil, and wedding shapes	Alabastron Aryballos Askos Lebes Gamikos Lekythos Loutrophoros Lydion Pyxis Stirrup jar

Funerary shapes and cultic shapes	Kernos Lekythos Loutrophoros Phiale

Storage shapes	Amphora Hydria Kalathos Kalpis Lebes Pelike Pithos Stamnos

Utilitarian ceramics	Chuta Epinetron Luchnos Situla

Techniques	Bilingual pottery Black-figure Bucchero Red-figure Six's technique Three-phase firing White-ground

Styles	Ancient Greek vase-painting styles

Potters and painters	List of Greek potters List of Greek vase painters List of Little Masters Name vase

Museums noted for pottery	Athens Basel und Ludwig Berlin Bodrum British Edinburgh Getty Heraklion Louvre Thera Ure Vatican Walters

Writers and books	Adolf Furtwängler Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Dietrich von Bothmer Edmond Pottier John Beazley John Boardman Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae

Special topics in Greek pottery	Frying pans Kalos inscription Nikosthenic amphora Panathenaic amphora Symposium Typology

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 25393817 LCCN: nr92011370 ISNI: 0000 0000 8637 0731 GND: 118531433 SUDOC: 130343579 ULAN: 500115442

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