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Macmillan Painter [Chigi Painter]
( fl c. 660–c. 640 BC). Greek vase painter. Active in Corinth, he is named after the aryballos (see GREECE, ANCIENT, fig. 89) found there and presented by Malcolm Macmillan in 1889 to the British Museum. He is also known as the Chigi Painter after the Chigi Jug (Rome, Villa Giulia, 22679), which was exported to Veii in Etruria. He was a leading painter in the Proto-Corinthian style (see GREECE, ANCIENT, §V, 4(ii)), specializing in the decoration of ovoid aryballoi (containers of perfumed oil). Despite the small size of these vessels (average h. 70 mm), there are several zones of surface decoration on the body, including an Orientalizing floral design on the shoulder, solid rays round the base, a main figured central zone and one or more subsidiary figured friezes below. The main scene exploits to the utmost the newly devised Black-figure technique of incised silhouette, which allowed the overlapping of figures in closely knit compositions without any loss of clarity (see GREECE, ANCIENT, §V, 5). Often he varies the usual colour scheme by applying different shades of brown for human flesh and body armour, in addition to the purplish-red normally used for minor details.
Part of the Vase painters family
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