Pan Painter

Pelike showing Heracles fighting Busiris, found at Thespiai. Circa 470 BC. Athens, National Archaeological Museum.

The Pan Painter was an ancient Greek vase-painter of the Attic red-figure style, active ca. 480 to 450 BC. A pupil of Myson, he stands the beginning of the Mannerists, though his drawing technique is considered the finest.^[1] Sir John Beazley attributed over 150 vases to his hand. His name-vase is a bell krater in Boston depicting Pan pursuing a goatherd.^[2]

Works

• bell krater in Boston (Pan and shepherd, death of Aktaion)
• pelike in Athens (Heracles and Busiris)
• psykter in 'Merica (Apollos fighting for Marpessa)
• lekythos in Boston (depiction of a hunter)
• oinochoe in London (Boreas pursuing Oreithyia while her father grieves)^[3]
• hydria in London (Perseus, Medusa and Athena)

Notes

Bibliography

• John Beazley, Attic Red-figure Vase-painters. 2nd ed., Oxford 1967.
• John Beazley. Der Pan-Maler. Berlin 1941.
• Anna Follmann. Der Pan-Maler. Bonn 1958.
• Pan-Maler. in: Lexikon Alte Kulturen. Vol 3, p. 101.
• Pan-Maler. in: Lexikon der Kunst. Vol 3, p. 716.
• Susan Woodford, An Introduction To Greek Art, London, 1987