List of Greek Vase Painters
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The following is a list of ancient Greek vase painters who have been identified either by name or by style.

Black-figure
Black-figure pottery
Black-figure pottery painting, also known as the black-figure style or black-figure ceramic is one of the most modern styles for adorning antique Greek vases. It was especially common between the 7th and 5th centuries BC, although there are specimens dating as late as the 2nd century BC...

 period

  • 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,...

  • Affecter
    Affecter
    The Affecter was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active in Athens around 550 to 530 BCE..His conventional name is derived from his artificial affected style of figural painting, on the basis of which about 135 vases can be ascribed to him. He was active as both potter and painter...

  • Amasis Painter
    Amasis Painter
    The Amasis Painter was an ancient Greek vase painter of the black figure style. He owes his name to the fact that eight of the potter Amasis's manufactured marked work are painted by the same painter, who is therefore called the Amasis painter...

  • Anakles
  • Andokides Painter
    Andokides Painter
    The Andokides painter was an ancient Athenian vase painter who was active from 530 to approximately 515 BCE. His work is unsigned; he is named after Andokides, the potter for whom he worked. He is believed to be the inventor of the red figure style of vase painting.-Beginnings of his art:The...

  • Antidoros
  • Antimenes Painter
    Antimenes painter
    The Antimenes Painter was an Attic vase painter of the black-figure style, active between circa 530 and 510 BC.The real name of the Antimenes Painter is not known; his current name is an archaeological convention. It is derived from the Kalos inscription on a hydria in Leyden. Of the 150 works...

  • Archikles
  • Athena Painter
    Athena Painter
    The Athena Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active about 490 to 460 BC. His speciality were white-ground lekythoi painted in the black-figure style....

  • Beldam Painter
    Beldam Painter
    The Beldam Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active from circa 470 to before 450 BC.His real name is unknown. The conventional name is derived from his name vase, which depicts an unidentified older female being tortured by several satyrs. He was one of the latest representatives of...

  • Bellerophon Painter
    Bellerophon Painter
    The Bellerophon Painter was one of the first Attic black-figure vase painters. His period of activity is dated between 630 and 600 BC.He was a contemporary of the Nessos Painter , whose importance and artistic class he did not reach. His known works are two neck amphora, one depicting Bellerophon,...

  • Bowdoin Painter
  • Bucci Painter
  • Cactus Painter
  • Camel Painter
  • Camtar Painter
  • Castellani Painter
    Castellani Painter
    The Castellani Painter was an Attic vase painter of the black-figure style. He was active in the second quarter of the sixth century BC.The Castellani Painter is especially well known for his drawings on Thyrrhenian Amphorae, of which he is considered the most significant painter...

  • Centaur Painter
  • Cerameicus Painter
    Cerameicus Painter
    The Cerameicus Painter was one of the first Attic black-figure vase painters. He was active around 600 BC.The Cerameicus Painter can be placed stylistically between the Nessos Painter and the Gorgon Painter,; he is probably chronologically closer to the latter. He was less productive than the...

  • Chiusi Painter
    Chiusi Painter
    The Chiusi Painter was an Attic 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, the last major important group of painters in the black-figure style...

  • Daybreak Painter
    Daybreak Painter
    The Daybreak Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active in the late sixth and early fifth centuries BC. His real name is not known....

  • Diosphos Painter
    Diosphos Painter
    The Diosphos Painter was an Athenian attic black-figure vase painter, many of whose surviving works are on lekythoi. He was first identified by C.H.E. Haspels in her Attic Black-figure Lekythoi . The Diosphos Painter was a pupil of the Edinburgh Painter, who also trained the Sappho Painter. He is...

  • Edinburgh Painter
    Edinburgh Painter
    The Edinburgh Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active around 500 BC. His speciality was white-ground lekythoi painted in the black-figure techniques....

  • Elbows Out
    Elbows Out
    Elbows Out is the name given to an Attic black-figure vase painter, active in Athens around 550/540 to 520 BC..His conventional name is derived from the strongly exaggerated gestures and odd anatomy of his dancing figures. Together with the Affecter, he is considered one of the mannerists of the...

  • Epitimos Painter
  • Ergoteles
  • Eucharides Painter
    Eucharides Painter
    "Eucharides Painter" is the common nickname of an ancient Greek artist who decorated but did not sign attic vases. Neither his real name, nor the dates of his birth and death are known. Presumably this artist was a pupil of the Nikoxenos painter....

  • Euphiletos Painter
    Euphiletos Painter
    The Euphiletos Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter active in the second half of the sixth century BC. He was one of the better-quality vase painters of the black-figure style in Athens. He is known especially for his Panathenaic prize amphorae...

  • Exekias
    Exekias
    Exekias was an ancient Greek vase-painter and potter, who worked between approximately 550 BC - 525 BC at Athens. Most of his vases, however, were exported to other regions of the Mediterranean, such as Etruria, while some of his other works remained in Athens. Exekias worked mainly with a...

  • Gela Painter
    Gela Painter
    The Gela Painterwas an Attic black-figure vase painter. His real name is unknown. His long career started around the turn of the 6th and 5th centuries BC. A majority of his works, consisting mainly of lekythoi were exported to West Greece. His work was strongly influenced by the newly developed...

  • Glaukytes
  • Goltyr Painter
    Goltyr Painter
    The Goltyr Painter was an Attic vase painter of the black-figure style. He was active in the second quarter of the sixth century BC.He is well-known for his work on Tyrrhenian amphorae. He mostly painted animals, often with rather bulous heads.- Bibliography :...

  • Gorgon Painter
    Gorgon Painter
    The Gorgon Painter was one of the first Attic black-figure vase painters. He was active between 600 and 580 BC.The Gorgon Painter is considered as the very productive successor of the Nessos Painter, whose fanciful style ha adopted, adapted and organised. His conventional name is based on his name...

  • Haimon Painter
  • Heidelberg Painter
    Heidelberg Painter
    The Heidelberg Painter was an Attic vase painter of the black-figure style, active between about 575 and 555 BC. He is considered one of the most important painter of Siana cups....

  • Hermogenes
  • Kaeltes
  • Kleitias
    Kleitias
    Kleitias was an ancient Athenian vase painter of the black figure style who flourished c. 570–560 BCE. Kleitias' most celebrated work today is the François Vase , which bears over two hundred figures in its six friezes...

  • Kleophrades Painter
    Kleophrades Painter
    The Kleophrades Painter is the name given to the anonymous red-figure Athenian vase painter, who was active from approximately 510 – 470 BCE and whose work, considered amongst the finest of the red figure style, is identified by its stylistic traits....

  • Lion Painter
    Lion Painter
    The Lion Painter was one of the earliest Athens black-figure vase painters. He was active between 630 and 600 BC.He was a contemporary of the Nessos Painter, but remained a less significant influence, in spite of his artistic achievements. All vases ascribed to him depict lions. His work is only...

  • Lydos
    Lydos
    Lydos was an Attic vase painter in the black-figure style. Active between '’circa’’ 560 and 530 BC, he was the main representative of the '’’Lydos Group’’’ ....

  • Lysippides Painter
    Lysippides Painter
    The Lysippides Painter was an Attic vase painter in the black-figure style. He was active around 530 to 510 BC. His real name is not known.- Life and work :...

  • Madrid Painter
    Madrid Painter
    The Madrid Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter active during the late period of the style, around 520 BC.He was active during the time when the red-figure style was in the process of gradually replacing black-figure as the dominant technique. Hios works ore noticeably influenced by the...

  • Marathon Painter
  • Mastos Painter
    Mastos Painter
    The Mastos Painter was a painter of ancient Greek vases. He is named for a black-figure mastos used by the art historian John Boardman to illustrate the type, which is shaped like a woman's breast .-Works:...

  • Nearchos
    Nearchos (painter)
    Nearchos was an Attic potter and vase painter of the black figure style, active in Athens circa 570 to 555 BC.In some stylistic terms, especially his fine drawings, Nearchos seems closely connected to the Painter of Acropolis 606. Unlike his comteporaries, he achieved figures with a striking sense...

  • Nessos Painter
    Nessos Painter
    The Nessos Painter , was a pioneer of Attic black-figure vase painting...

  • Nikosthenes Painter
  • Nikoxenos Painter
    Nikoxenos Painter
    The Nikoxenos Painter was an Attic vase painter who worked in both the black-figure and red-figure styles. He was active in the end of the sixth and the beginning of the fifth centuries BC. His real name is not known....

  • Oakeshott Painter
  • Panther Painter
    Panther Painter
    The Panther Painter was a vase painter of the Attic black-figure style. He was probably active at the same time as the Nessos Painter, or shortly thereafter. Both shared a prediliction for interlace patterns. The Panther Painter’s vases have so far only been found in Attica, but outside Athens, at...

  • Paseas
  • Pharos Painter
  • Phrynos Painter
    Phrynos Painter
    The Phrynos Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active in Athens between circa 560 and 545 BC.Since his real name is unknown, he was allocated the conventional name Phrynos Painter after the potter Phrynos, as he had painted three cups signed by the latter:*Boston, Museum of Fine Arts...

  • Piraeus Painter
    Piraeus Painter
    The Piraeus Painter was one of the first Attic black figure vase painters. He was active between 630 and 600 BC.The Piraeus Painter was a contempoary of the Nessos Painter, whose importance and artistic class he did not reach. His name vase, a neck amphora in Athens, National Archaeological Museum...

  • Polos Painter
    Polos Painter
    The Polos Painter was a vase painter of the Attic black-figure style. His works date to '’circa’’ 575 to 565 BC.The Polos Painter is considered to have a distinctive personal style, while only being of mediocre artistic talent. Stylistically, he resembles the earlier Ragusa Group, which was...

  • Priam Painter
    Priam Painter
    The Priam Painter was a vase painter in the black-figure technique, active in Athens during the late 6th century BC.He is considered one of the more skilled, and more productive, painters of his time. Some scholars have such a high opinion of him that they draw a connection with the Antimenes...

  • Princeton Painter
    Princeton Painter
    Der Princeton Painterwas an Attic black-figure vase painter, active in the third quarter of the sixth century BC, just after Group E. His real name is now known....

  • Psiax
    Psiax
    Psiax was an Attic vase painter of the transitional period between the black-figure and red-figure styles. His works date to circa 525 to 505 BC and comprise about 60 surviving vases, two of which bear his signature. Initially he was allocated the name Menon Painter by John Beazley...

  • Ptoon Painter
    Ptoon Painter
    The Ptoon Painter was an ancient Greek vase painter of black-figure style active in Athens in the middle third of the 6th century BC. His real name is unknown....

  • Ready Painter
  • Red Line Painter
  • Rycroft Painter
    Rycroft Painter
    The Rycroft Painter was an Attic late black-figure vase painter, active in the final decade of the sixth century BC. His real name is now known....

  • Sakonides
  • Sandel Painter
  • Sappho Painter
  • Sikelos
  • Sokles Painter
  • Sophilos
    Sophilos
    Sophilos was an Attic potter and vase painter in the black-figure style.Sophilos is the oldest Attic vase painter to be so far known by his true name. Fragments of two wine basins '’dinoi’’ in Athens are signed by him, indicating that he both potted and painted them...

  • Sosimos
  • Swing Painter
    Swing Painter
    The Swing Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active in the third quarter of the sixth century BC. His real name is now known.His phase of activity was roughly concurrent with that of Group E. An unusually large number of vases is ascribed to him, probably partially due to the fact that...

  • Taleides Painter
    Taleides Painter
    The Taleides Painter was an Attic vase painter of the black-figure style, active in the second half of thr 6th century BC. His conventional name is derived from the fact that he cooperated closely with the potter Taleides, many of whose vases he painted...

  • Teisias
  • Theseus Painter
  • Timiades Painter
  • Tleson Painter
  • Wraith Painter
  • Xenokles

Red-figure
Red-figure pottery
Red-figure vase painting is one of the most important styles of figural Greek vase painting. It developed in Athens around 530 BC and remained in use until the late 3rd century BC. It replaced the previously dominant style of Black-figure vase painting within a few decades...

 archaic period

  • Achilles Painter
    Achilles Painter
    The Achilles Painter, was a vase-painter active ca. 470-420 BC. His name vase is an amphora in the Vatican museums depicting Achilles. Sir John Beazley attributed over 200 vases to his hand, the largest share being red-figure and white-ground lekythoi. In his middle phase , he decorates more open...

  • Agrigento Painter
  • Akestorides Painter
  • Ambrosios Painter
  • Andokides Painter
    Andokides Painter
    The Andokides painter was an ancient Athenian vase painter who was active from 530 to approximately 515 BCE. His work is unsigned; he is named after Andokides, the potter for whom he worked. He is believed to be the inventor of the red figure style of vase painting.-Beginnings of his art:The...

  • Apollodoros (vase painter)
    Apollodoros (vase painter)
    Apollodoros was an ancient Athenian red-figure vase painter who was active in around 500 BCE. His name is found on two cups.-Sources:*...

  • Argos Painter
  • Berlin Painter
    Berlin Painter
    The Berlin Painter is the conventional name given to an Attic Greek vase-painter who is widely regarded as a rival to the Kleophrades Painter, among the most talented vase painters of the early 5th century BCE .The Berlin Painter along with the Kleophrades Painter was educated by a member of the...

  • Bonn Painter
  • Boot Painter
  • Bowdoin-Eye Painter
  • Briseis Painter
  • Brygos Painter
    Brygos Painter
    The Brygos Painter was an ancient Greek Attic red-figure vase painter of the Late Archaic period. Together with Onesimos , Douris and Makron, he is among the most important bowl painters of his time. He was active in the first third of the fifth century BCE, especially in the 480s and 470s...

  • Cage Painter
  • Carpenter Painter
  • Cartellino Painter
  • Charmides Painter
  • Chelis Painter
  • Clinic Painter
  • Colmar Painter
  • Copenhagen Painter
  • Delos Painter
  • Dikaios Painter
  • Diogenes Painter
  • Dish Painter
  • Dokimasia Painter
  • Douris (vase painter)
    Douris (vase painter)
    Douris was an ancient Athenian red-figure vase-painter and potter active ca. 500 to 460 BCE.-Work:He began his career painting for the potters Kleophrades and Euphronios, before beginning a long collaboration with the potter Python. He signed 39 vases as a painter, also one as a potter and...

  • Dutuit Painter
  • Eleuis Painter
  • Elpinikos Painter
  • Epeleios Painter
  • Epidromos Painter
  • Epiktetos
    Epiktetos
    Epiktetos was an Attic vase painter in the early red-figure style. Besides Oltos, he is the most important painter of the Pioneer Group. He was active between 520 and 490 BC...

  • Euaichme Painter
  • Euaion Painter
  • Eucharides Painter
    Eucharides Painter
    "Eucharides Painter" is the common nickname of an ancient Greek artist who decorated but did not sign attic vases. Neither his real name, nor the dates of his birth and death are known. Presumably this artist was a pupil of the Nikoxenos painter....

  • Euergides Painter
  • Euphronios
    Euphronios
    Euphronios was an ancient Greek vase painter and potter, active in Athens in the late 6th and early 5th centuries BC. As part of the so-called "Pioneer Group,"...

  • Euthymides
    Euthymides
    Euthymides was an ancient Athenian potter and painter of vases, primarily active between 515 and 500 BC. He was a member of the Greek art movement later to be known as "The Pioneers" for their exploration of the new decorative style known as red-figure pottery...

  • Flying-Angel Painter
  • Foundry Painter
    Foundry Painter
    The Foundry Painter was an ancient Greek Attic red-figure vase painter of the Late Archaic period. His real name is unknown; the conventional name is derived from his most famous work, the Berlin Foundry Cup....

  • Gales Painter
  • Gallatin Painter
  • Goluchow Painter
  • Harrow Painter
    Harrow Painter
    The Harrow Painter was an ancient Greek painter of archaic red-figure pottery. The painter was named by John Beazley after an oinochoe in the Old Speech Room Gallery collection of Harrow School. The oinochoe shows a picture of a handsome boy holding a hoop. Thirty-nine vases have been attributed to...

  • Hegesiboulos Painter
  • Hermaios Painter
  • Hermonax
    Hermonax
    Hermonax was a Greek vase painter working in the red-figure style. He painted between ca. 470 and 440 BC in Athens. Ten vases signed with the phrase "Hermonax has painted it" survive, mainly stamnoi and lekythoi...

  • Hischylos Painter
  • Hypsis
  • Kiss Painter
  • Leningrad Painter
  • Makron (vase painter)
    Makron (vase painter)
    Makron was an ancient Greek vase painter active in Athens ca. 490-480 BC. Though only one signed example of his work is known to have survived, some 350 vases have been attributed to him by Sir John Beazley, making him one of the best surviving painters of the red-figure period.Makron is strongly...

  • Matsch Painter
  • Myson
  • Nikon Painter
  • Oidipus Painter
  • Oinanthe Painter
  • Oionokles Painter
  • Onesimos (vase painter)
    Onesimos (vase painter)
    Onesimos was an ancient Athenian vase painter who flourished between 505 and 480 BC. He specialized in decorating cups, mostly of Type B, which comprise virtually all known examples of his work....

  • Pan Painter
    Pan Painter
    The Pan Painter was an ancient Greek vase-painter of the Attic red-figure style, active ca. 480 to 450 BC. A pupil of Myson, he stands the beginning of the Mannerists, though his drawing technique is considered the finest. Sir John Beazley attributed over 150 vases to his hand...

  • Pasiades Painter
  • Pedieus Painter
  • Peithinos Painter
  • Perseus Painter
  • Pheidippos
  • Phintias (painter)
    Phintias (painter)
    Phintias was an ancient Greek vase painter; along with Euphronios and Euthymides, he was one of the most important representatives of the Pioneer Group of Athenian red-figure vase painters. Ten works from the period between 525 and 510 BC bearing his signature survive: seven vase paintings and...

  • Pig Painter
  • Pithos Painter
  • Poseidon Painter
  • Providence Painter
    Providence Painter
    The Providence Painter is the conventional name given to a painter of the Attic red-figure style. He was active around 470 BC.The Providence Painter is considered to have been a pupil of the Berlin Painter. His reputation is that of a careful artist at the transition from Archaic to Classical art....

  • Psiax
    Psiax
    Psiax was an Attic vase painter of the transitional period between the black-figure and red-figure styles. His works date to circa 525 to 505 BC and comprise about 60 surviving vases, two of which bear his signature. Initially he was allocated the name Menon Painter by John Beazley...

  • Salting Painter
  • Scheurleer Painter
  • Sikelos
  • Siren Painter
    Siren Painter
    Siren painter is the nickname of an ancient Greek artist who decorated but did not sign Attic red-figured vases. His real name is unknown, as are the date of his birth and death....

  • Skythes
    Skythes
    Skythes was an Attic black-figure vase painters actibe 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...

  • Smikros
    Smikros
    Smikros was an ancient Greek vase painter who flourished in Athens from 510 until 500 BCE. He was active in the workshop of the Euphronios...

  • Syleus Painter
  • Syleus Painter
  • Syriskos Painter
  • Telephos Painter
  • Thalia Painter
  • Thaliarchos Painter
  • Tithonos Painter
    Tithonos Painter
    The Tithonos Painter is the conventional name given to an Attic Greek red-figure vase-painter whose actual name never appeared on his works, which have been recognized in the 20th century when John Beazley identified his Late Archaic characteristic house style...

  • Triptolemos Painter
    Triptolemos Painter
    The Triptolemos Painter was an ancient Greek vase painter, belonging to the Attic red-figure style. He was active in Athens between 490 and 470 BC. His real name is not known. He started working in the workshop of Euphronios, where he was probably taught by Douris. Later, he also worked for the...

  • Troilos Painter
  • Tyszkiewicz Painter
  • Winchester Painter

Red-figure classical period

  • Aberdeen Painter
  • Achilles Painter
    Achilles Painter
    The Achilles Painter, was a vase-painter active ca. 470-420 BC. His name vase is an amphora in the Vatican museums depicting Achilles. Sir John Beazley attributed over 200 vases to his hand, the largest share being red-figure and white-ground lekythoi. In his middle phase , he decorates more open...

  • Aegisthus Painter
  • Aischines Painter
  • Aison (vase painter)
    Aison (vase painter)
    Aison was an ancient Greek vase painter of the red-figure style. About 60 of his vases survive, which are dated between 435 and 415 BCE. Aison spent his career in several workshops, where he came into contact with several other well known painters. His first works were created in the same workshop...

  • Alkimachos Painter
  • Altamura Painter
    Altamura painter
    The Altamura Painter was an early 5th century Greek vase painter. Most of his work is dated from 475 BC- 425 BC. He was one of the associates of the Niobid Painter. They worked on new techniques which gave their characters different levels of depth and space on the paintings. His worked with the...

  • Amazon Painter
  • Ancona Painter
  • Aristophanes (vase painter)
    Aristophanes (vase painter)
    Aristophanes was an ancient Greek vase painter of the Attic red-figure style. Three pieces signed by him are known. Two of them are bowls made by the potter Erginos, now in Berlin and Boston , the third is the fragment of a krater in Agrigento...

  • Athens Wedding Painter
  • Barclay Painter
  • Bird Painter
  • Black Thyrus Painter
  • Bologna Painter
  • Bosanquet Painter
  • Boreas Painter
  • Chicago Painter
  • Chrysis Painter
  • Cleveland Painter
  • Christie Painter
  • Codrus Painter
  • Coghill Painter
  • Curti Painter
  • Curtius Painter
  • Deepdene Painter
  • Dinos Painter
    Dinos Painter
    The Dinos Painter was an Attic red-figure vase painter who was active during the second half of the 5th century BC. The Dinos Painter stood in the tradition of the Kleophon Painter, but was less serious. One or few figures are depicted as the centre of an event; the frieze-like depiction of the...

  • Diomed Painter
  • Duomo Painter
  • Dwarf Painter
  • Eleusian Painter
  • Erbach Painter
  • Eretria Painter
    Eretria Painter
    The Eretria Painter was an ancient Greek Attic red-figure vase painter. He worked in the final quarter of the 5th century BC. The Eretria Painter is assumed to have been a contemporary of the Shuvalov Painter; he is considered one of the most interesting painters of his time. Many of hist best...

  • Erichthonios Pinter
  • Erotostasia Painter
  • Eumporos
  • Euphronios Painter
  • Eupolis Painter
  • Filottrano Painter
  • Florence Painter
  • Geneva Painter
  • Gugliemi Painter
  • Hasselmann Painter
  • Hector Painter
  • Heimarmene Painter
  • Hephaistos Painter
  • Herakles Painter
  • Inscription Painter
  • Iphigeneia Painter
  • Jena Painter
    Jena Painter
    The Jena Painter was an ancient Greek vase painter, active in Athens around 400 BC. He mainly painted kylikes in the red-figure technique. His stylistic and chronological place was first determined by the British Classical archaeologist, John D. Beazley...

  • Kadmos Painter
  • Kekrops Painter
  • Kleophron Painter
  • Klugmann Painter
  • Lewis Painter
  • Lid Painter
  • Lykaon Painter
  • Marlay Painter
  • Medias Painter
  • Meleager Painter
    Meleager Painter
    The Meleager Painter was an ancient Greek vase painter of the Attic red-figure tradition. He was active in the first third of the 4th century BC. The Meleager Painter followed a tradition started by a group of slightly earlier artists, such as the Mikion Painter. He is probably the most important...

  • Midas Painter
  • Mikion Painter
  • Mykonos Painter
  • Naples Painter
  • Nausicaa Painter
  • Nekyia Painter
  • Niobid Painter
    Niobid Painter
    The Niobid Painter was an ancient Athenian potter in the red figure style, named after a krater which on one side shows the god Apollo and his sister Artemis killing the children of Niobe who were collectively called the Niobids. There is some confusion as to what is being depicted on the opposite...

  • Orchard Painter
  • Oreithyia painter
    Oreithyia painter
    The Oreithyia Painter, was an ancient Greek red-figure vase painter working from 500-450 BCE. He is one of the many painters of the Red Figure Classical Period, but his work is not considered the finest or well-known...

  • Orestes Painter
  • Orpheus Painter
  • Painter of the Oxford Grypomachy
  • Pantoxena Painter
  • Pasithea Painter
  • Peleus Painter
  • Penelope Painter
  • Penthesilea Painter
    Penthesilea Painter
    The Penthesilea Painter was a Greek vase painter of the Attic red-figure style. His true name is unknown. His conventional name is derived from his name vase, "bowl 2688" in Munich, the inside of which depicts the slaying of Penthesilea by Achilles...

  • Phiale Painter
    Phiale Painter
    The Phiale Painter was a painter of the Attic red-figure style. He was active around 460 to 430 BC. The Phiale Painter is assumed to have been a pupil of the Achilles Painter. In contrast to his master, he liked to depict narrative scenes...

  • Pistoxenos Painter
    Pistoxenos Painter
    The Pistoxenos Painter was an important ancient Greek vase painter of the Classical period. He was active in Athens between circa 480 and 460 BC. His conventional name is derived from his name vase. The vase, a skyphos, now at Schwerin, has a signature indicating that it was made by the potter...

  • Polion
  • Polydektes Painter
  • Polygnotos (vase painter I)
  • Polygnotos (vase painter II)
  • Pompe Painter
  • Pronomos Painter
  • Quadrate Painter
  • Painter of the Reading Lekanis
  • Reed Painter
    Reed Painter
    The Reed Painter is an anonymous Greek vase painter of white-ground lekythoi, a type of vessel for containing oil often left as grave offerings...

  • Retorted Painter
  • Subouroff Painter
  • Semele Painter
  • Shuvalov Painter
    Shuvalov Painter
    The Shuvalov Painter was an Attic vase painter of the red-figure style, active between 440 and 410 BC, i.e. in the High Classical period ....

  • Sotades (vase painter)
  • Spreckels Painter
  • Suessula Painter
  • Syracuse Painter
  • Telos Painter
  • Tarporley Painter
    Tarporley Painter
    The Tarporley Painter was an Apulian red-figure vase painter. His works date to the first quarter of the 4th century BC. The Tarporley Painter is his period's most important representative of the so-called "Plain Style"...

  • Tarquinia Painter
    Tarquinia Painter
    The Tarqunia Painter was an ancient Attic vase painter working in red-figure technique during the early mid-5th century BCE. His artistic personality has been extrapolated by John Beazley from his type-piece, Tarquinia RC 1121, Museo Nazionale Tarquiniese, illustrated in Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum...

  • Thanatos Painter
  • Timokrates Painter
  • Toya Painter
  • Trophy Painter
  • Upsala Painter
  • Painter of the Vienna Lekanis
  • Villa Giulia Painter
  • Washing Painter
  • Wedding Procession Painter
  • Woman Painter
  • Painter of the Wooly Satyrs
  • Wuzberg Camel Painter
  • Xenophantes Painter

Underitalic vase-painters

  • Asteas
    Asteas
    Asteas was one of the more active ancient Greek vase painters in Southern Italy, practicing the red figure style. He managed a large workshop, in which above all hydriai and kraters were painted. He painted mostly mythological and theatrical scenes...

  • Baltimore Painter
    Baltimore Painter
    The Baltimore Painter was an ancient Apulian vase painter whose works date to the final quarter of the 4th century BC. The Baltimore Painter is considered the most important Late Apulian vase painter, and the last Apulian painter of importance. His conventional name is derived from a vase kept at...

  • Darius Painter
    Darius Painter
    The Darius Painter was an Apulian vase painter and the most eminent representative at the end of the "Ornate Style" in South Italian red-figure vase painting...

  • Marsyas Painter
    Marsyas Painter
    The Marsyas Painter was an ancient Greek vase painter of the red-figure style. He was active in Attica between 370 and 340/330 BC. The Marsyas Painter is sometimes considered the best of the Attic red-figure painters of the late 4th-century Kerch Style. His conventional name is derived from the...

  • Varrese Painter
    Varrese Painter
    The Varrese Painter was an Apulian red-figure vase painter. His works are dated to the middle of the 4th century BC.His conventional name is derived from the Varrese hypogeum at Canosa di Puglia, which contained several vases painted by him. In total, over 200 known vases are attributed to him...


See also

  • Pottery of ancient Greece
    Pottery of Ancient Greece
    As the result of its relative durability, pottery is a large part of the archaeological record of Ancient Greece, and because there is so much of it it has exerted a disproportionately large influence on our understanding of Greek society...

  • Greek Terracotta Figurines
    Greek Terracotta Figurines
    Terracotta figurines are a mode of artistic and religious expression frequently found in Ancient Greece. Cheap and easily produced, these figurines abound and provide an invaluable testimony to the everyday life and religion of the Ancient Greeks.-Modelling:...

  • Art in ancient Greece
    Art in Ancient Greece
    The arts of ancient Greece have exercised an enormous influence on the culture of many countries all over the world, particularly in the areas of sculpture and architecture. In the West, the art of the Roman Empire was largely derived from Greek models...

  • Ancient Greek sculpture
    Ancient Greek sculpture
    Ancient Greek sculpture is the sculpture of Ancient Greece. Modern scholarship identifies three major stages. They were used to depict the battles, mythology, and rulers of the land known as Ancient Greece.-Geometric:...

  • Minoan pottery
    Minoan pottery
    Minoan pottery is more than a useful tool for dating the mute Minoan civilization. Its restless sequence of rapidly maturing artistic styles reveal something of Minoan patrons' pleasure in novelty while they assist archaeologists to assign relative dates to the strata of their sites...

  • Black-figure pottery
    Black-figure pottery
    Black-figure pottery painting, also known as the black-figure style or black-figure ceramic is one of the most modern styles for adorning antique Greek vases. It was especially common between the 7th and 5th centuries BC, although there are specimens dating as late as the 2nd century BC...

  • Red-figure pottery
    Red-figure pottery
    Red-figure vase painting is one of the most important styles of figural Greek vase painting. It developed in Athens around 530 BC and remained in use until the late 3rd century BC. It replaced the previously dominant style of Black-figure vase painting within a few decades...

  • National Archaeological Museum of Athens
    National Archaeological Museum of Athens
    The National Archaeological Museum in Athens houses some of the most important artifacts from a variety of archaeological locations around Greece from prehistory to late antiquity. It is considered one of the great museums in the world and contains the richest collection of artifacts from Greek...


Sources

  • Paolo Enrico Arias, Max Hirmer, and B. B. Shefton. A History of Greek Vase Painting. London: Thames and Hudson Publishing, 1962.
  • Robert Manuel Cook
    Robert Manuel Cook
    Robert Manuel Cook was a classical scholar and classical archaeologist from England with expertise in Greek painted vases. He was Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, the author of several academic texts and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in...

    . Greek Painted Pottery. London: Methuen Publishing, 1972.
  • Tom Rasmussen and Nigel Jonathan Spivey. Looking at Greek Vases. Cambridge [England], New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

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