Chiusi Painter
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The Chiusi Painter was an Attic
Attica
Attica is a historical region of Greece, containing Athens, the current capital of Greece. The historical region is centered on the Attic peninsula, which projects into the Aegean Sea...

 black-figure vase painter, active in the final quarter of the sixth century BC. His real name is now known.
The Chiusi Painter was part of the so-called Leagros Group
Leagros Group
The Leagros Group was a group of Attic black-figure vase painters active during the last two decades of the 6th century BC. The name given to the group by modern scholars is a conventional one, derived from a series of name vases....

, the last major important group of painters in the black-figure style. He is characterised by a “boring delicateness compared to other artists of the group, but fails to reach the origina of e.g. the Acheloos Painter
Acheloos Painter
The Acheloos Painter was an ancient Greek vase painter of the black-figure style. He received his name after a representation of the fight of the river god Acheloos and Heracles on Amphora F 1851 in the Berlin Antique collection.-Selected works:*Altenburg, Staatliches Lindenau-Museum*Basel,...

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