Works
Works ascribed to Lydos can be found on all types of vase shape then produced in the Athenian potters’ quarter, including a seriesof grave pinakes.
One of his two signed vases is a dinos, preserved only in fragments and found on the Athenian Acropolis. In style it resembles the works of the Painter of Acropolis 606 and Nearchos. The main frieze depicts a very carefully designed gigantomachy. Subsidiary friezes show a procession a hunt and various animals. Especially striking aspects of the work are a number of details and the colouring. Lydos painted a wasp as a shield emblazonment and dangerous-looking knives in the procession scene. These martial aspects are balanced by the high-quality animal friezes.
Another well-known work by him is a column krater, now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. It is nearly as large as the François Vase, but is decorated only with a single frieze, so that the figures reach a height of nearly 25 cm. The painter focused not so much on the depicted narrative (return of Hephaistos), but on the gestures of the figures Dionysos and Hephaistos, and even more so of the accompanying satyrs and maenads. He omitted circumstantial detail, as used e.g. by Klitias, and failed to present the satyrs genitals as the Amasis Painter would have. Instead, his satyrs are depicted as “gentlemen”.
Some particular works are as follows.
- Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum
- Amphora 86.AE.60
- New York, Metropolitan Museum
- Column Krater 31.11.11
- Paris, Louvre
- five vases
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