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The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C.

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The Berlin Painter used to be the name given by British classicist and art historian Sir John Beazley to an differently anonymous Athenian red-figure vase-painter. The artist’s long career extended from about 505 B.C. well into the 460s, and his elegant renderings of day by day life and mythological stories offer invaluable insight into the social, political, religious, and artistic workings of early 5th-century Athens.
 
For the reason that first published identification of the artist in 1911, the Berlin Painter’s oeuvre has grown to a few 330 works, both complete pots and fragments, making him one of the most best-known artists of his kind. This lavishly illustrated publication features nine essays by leading scholars who explore the artist’s work, milieu, influence, and legacy, in addition to the role of connoisseurship in art-historical scholarship. With an up to date catalogue raisonné that includes many newly attributed works, it’s the definitive book in this seminal artist.

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