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The Berlin Painter and His World – Toledo Museum of Art
Sojourner’s Truth Staff
There’s a lot that art
historians do not know about the Berlin Painter. They don’t
know his name nor little about his personal life. They can
only assume in fact that he was a he.
However, art historians do
know when he lived, where he lived, how he worked and that
he was an incredibly accomplished and prolific artist who
developed a style with his painted ceramic vases that
forever changed the art that was produced after him.
The Toledo Museum of Art
has assembled a collection of the Berlin Painter’s work that
will never be replicated, says Adam Levine, PhD, Toledo
Museum of Art associate director and associate curator of
ancient art.
Eighty-four vessels and
statuettes of bronze and terracotta from the early 5th
century B.C. Greek art world have been assembled for the
current TMA exhibition – dozens of the vessels attributed o
the Berlin Painter himself (so named because the first such
piece attributed to the artist was identified in a Berlin
museum in 1911).
The current exhibit at TMA
has been assembled from 15 renowned museums around the world
from Boston to Berlin.
The Berlin Painter and His
World: Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century
B.C. will remain at TMA until October 1, 2017. |
