Beyond the Penthesilea Painter: Status of Issues at Limits of the Attribution
Beyond the Penthesilea Painter: Status of Issues at Limits of the Attribution

Author(s): Pedro Luís M. Sanches
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts, History of Art
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: The Penthesilea Painter; the Workshop of the Penthesilea Painter; red-figure vase painting; connoisseurship of figurative art; archaeological methods and theory; archaeology of image production
Summary/Abstract: An attribution is, first and foremost, an interpretative category. With the anonymous pottery painter identificated as the 𝑃𝑒𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑎 𝑃𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 would not be different, but this “creative personality” was implicated in unexpected workshop practices, stylistic transitional peculiarities and crossover involving parietal painting. Throughout the second half of the last century, the Penthesilea workshop generated less and less interest among the specialists in the field of Greek vase painting. The dominant interpretation that the “ethical” aspect of it’s contemporarie parietal paintings could be seen in the Penthesilea Painter’s works has given way to doubts and academic disinterest. This paper compiles main understandings on the subject.

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