Pan Painter. The Pan Painter was an ancient Greek vase-painter of the Attic red-figure style, probably active c. 480 to 450 BCE.
John Beazley attributed over 150 vases to his hand in 1912: Cunning composition; rapid motion; quick deft draughtsmanship; strong and peculiar stylisation; a deliberate archaism, retaining old forms, but refining, refreshing, and galvanizing them; nothing noble or majestic, but grace, humour, vivacity, originality, and dramatic force: these are the qualities which mark the Boston krater, and which characterize the anonymous artist who, for the sake of convenience, may be called the master of the Boston Pan-vase, or, more briefly, the Pan-master. Beazley identified the Pan Painter as a pupil of Myson, teacher of the Mannerists, a term applied to a group who used mannered depiction of figures for decorative effect.
Mannerists also magnified the gestures, made most forms skinnier and at the same time shrunk the heads of the figures. More attention was given to the pattern that clothing offered than the naturalization of the human form.
Most often, either black buds or black ivy create frames around the scenes. Most of the pottery that has been attributed to Mannerists are pelikai, hydriai, and kraters.
Though the original names of the artists are unknown, historians have given artists names based on pieces that seem to be painted by the same person or group of artist
John Beazley attributed over 150 vases to his hand in 1912: Cunning composition; rapid motion; quick deft draughtsmanship; strong and peculiar stylisation; a deliberate archaism, retaining old forms, but refining, refreshing, and galvanizing them; nothing noble or majestic, but grace, humour, vivacity, originality, and dramatic force: these are the qualities which mark the Boston krater, and which characterize the anonymous artist who, for the sake of convenience, may be called the master of the Boston Pan-vase, or, more briefly, the Pan-master. Beazley identified the Pan Painter as a pupil of Myson, teacher of the Mannerists, a term applied to a group who used mannered depiction of figures for decorative effect.
Mannerists also magnified the gestures, made most forms skinnier and at the same time shrunk the heads of the figures. More attention was given to the pattern that clothing offered than the naturalization of the human form.
Most often, either black buds or black ivy create frames around the scenes. Most of the pottery that has been attributed to Mannerists are pelikai, hydriai, and kraters.
Though the original names of the artists are unknown, historians have given artists names based on pieces that seem to be painted by the same person or group of artist
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