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Skythes ((ギリシア語:Σκύθης), ''the Scythian'') was an Attic black-figure vase painters active between about 520 and 505 BC. Modern scholarship considers Skythes as a kind of artistic loner, whose work cannot easily be categorised among the known workshops and groups. He signed four known ''kylikes''. Further, he another ''ca''. twenty ''kylikes'' and two ''dinos'' stands are attributed to him on the basis of stylistic anlyses. His early works were created a short time after the invention of the red-figure technique. On three bilingual works he demonstrates his skill in the older black-figure style. Unusually, they feature red-figure paintings on the interior and on the outside black-figure on coral-red ground. Inside and outside each bear only one figure. He belonged to the first generation of vase painters to specialise in cups. His figural images depict people in an exaggerated ugliness or brutishness, casting him, much in contrast to the norms then prevailing in Greek art, as a comedian, even a satirist. Especially his faces reflect an ''outré'' sense of humour. Perhaps this indicates, as does his name, that he was not a native Athenian, although he was well aware of the city's artistic repertoire. Although he was probably not a Scythian, the (self-chosen) nickname appears to express a certain extravagance or individualism. Two ''pinakes'' with black-figure paint that were found the Athenian Acropolis bear the signature of a Skythes. It is assumed that they are also by him. His vases occasionally bear the ''kalos'' inscriptionn ''Epilykos''. The Pedieus Painter uses the same name, which has led some scholars to suggest that he is identical with Skythes towards the end of his career. On a vase by Phintias, the same ''Epilykos'' is depicted as an athlete. For some time, such vases were falsely ascribed to a non-existent painter Epilykos. The use of the name classifies Skythes as a member of the Epilykos Class. == Bibliography == * Ricardo Olmos Romera: ''Skythes'', in ''Künstlerlexikon der Antike'', p. 434-436 * John Boardman: ''Rotfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Die archaische Zeit. Ein Handbuch'', von Zabern, Mainz 1981 (= 4. edn. 1994) (Kulturgeschichte der Antiken Welt, Vol. 4), ISBN 3-8053-0234-7 p. 67 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Skythes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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