The Lampas Painter

The artist I call the Lampas painter painted the torch-race on the mug in the Karlsruhe Museum that Blümel reproduced on plate 134 of his book Sport der Hellenen . Though I have found it difficult to place the style of the Lampas painter within the whole production of Apulian vases with certainty, I have no doubt that it is Apulian. Sir John Beazley first pointed out to me that the style of the mug in Karlsruhe was identical with that of the mug Oxford 1934.17. Later I came across two more vases, which, I thought, should go with those in Karlsruhe and Oxford. One was in Truro, the other in Reading. I compared photographs of them with Blümel's reproduction of the Karlsruhe vase and photographs of the Oxford vase, and came to the conclusion that they were all painted by the same hand. This is a short description of the subjects represented on the four vases by the Lampas painter known to me: 1. Mug (oinochoe shape VIII B). Karlsruhe Museum. Pl. V, 1, after Blümel, Sport der Hellenen , 115, pl. 1 34. Three naked youths in torch-race. On either side of the first racer a post. Height 125 mm

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