Psiax
Sign in to saveAlso known as Menon Painter, Menon painter
thumb|260px|Armoured warrior on a plate acribed to Psiax, circa 510 BC, found in the sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia, [[Antikensammlung Berlin.]] Psiax was an Attic vase painter of the transitional period between the black-figure and red-figure styles. His works date to circa 525 to 505 BC and comprise about 60 surviving vases, two of which bear his signature. Initially he was allocated the name "Menon Painter" by John Beazley. Only later was it realised that the artist was identical with the painters signing as "Psiax".
Key facts
- Artist.name
- Psiax(formerly the Menon Painter)
- Artist.image
- Dionysos kantharos BM B589.jpg
- Artist.image_size
- 250px
- Artist.caption
- Dionysos holding out a kantharos, black-figured plate by Psiax, ca. 520-500 BC, British Museum (B 589).
- Artist.birth_name
- Psiax
- Artist.birth_date
- Before 525 BC
- Artist.birth_place
- Attica
- Artist.death_date
- About 505 BC
- Artist.field
- Vase painting
- Artist.movement
- Black-figure and Red-figure styles
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Classical Athens
- Place of birth
- Attica
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Native language
- Ancient Greek
- Student of
- Amasis Painter
- Field of work
- red-figure pottery
- Movement
- Archaic Greece
- Image
- Dionysos kantharos BM B589.jpg
- Work location
- Kerameikos
- Residence
- Classical Athens
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- Commons category
- Psiax
- Commons Creator page
- Psiax
- date of birth
- 0550-00-00
- time period
- classical antiquity
- name in native language
- Ψίαξ
- culture
- Ancient Greece
- student
- Phintias
- date of death
- 0460-00-00
- start of work period
- 0525-00-00
- end of work period
- 0510-00-00
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thumb|260px|Armoured warrior on a plate acribed to Psiax, circa 510 BC, found in the sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia, [[Antikensammlung Berlin.]] Psiax was an Attic vase painter of the transitional period between the black-figure and red-figure styles. His works date to circa 525 to 505 BC and comprise about 60 surviving vases, two of which bear his signature. Initially he was allocated the name "Menon Painter" by John Beazley. Only later was it realised that the artist was identical with the painters signing as "Psiax".
Psiax collaborated with the potters Hilinos, Menon, Andokides and Nikosthenes. While he started as a painter in the black-figure technique, he played a major role in the early development of red-figure, which was invented in the workshop of Andokides. The black-figure Antimenes Painter, working for the same workshop, was stylistically close to Psiax; Beazley described the two as "brothers". Perhaps unsurprisingly, considering his chronological position, Psiax was a master of bilingual vase painting. Formerly called the Menon Painter, after the potter’s signature on a red-figure amphora (Philadelphia, U. PA, Mus., 5349), he signed two red-figure alabastra as painter, both of which bear the signature of the potter Hilinos [Karlsruhe, Bad. Landesmus., 242 (B 120) and Odessa, A. Mus.]. Psiax also knew the white ground technique, as well as coral red pottery techniques.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Psiax” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.