The Berlin Painter (working c. 490s–c. 460s BCE) is the pseudonym of 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 fifth century B.C. (see Pottery of Ancient Greece). The Berlin Painter was named by Sir John Beazley for a large lidded amphora in the Antiken Museum, Berlin (his namepiece)^[1]. The Berlin Painter began working in the Late Archaic style and helped develop the Classic style of Attic red-figure pottery. He produced a series of Panathenaic Prize Amphorae. The Kleophrades Painter (or Cleophrades Painter) is the name given to an anonymous Athenian vase painter who flourished between about 505 BCE and 475 BCE, whose work is considered to be amongst the finest of the red figure style. ... Krater (mixing bowl), 1200-1100 BC, National Archaeological Museum, Athens The pottery of ancient Greece is one of the most tangible and iconic elements of ancient Greek art. ... Sir John Davidson Beazley (1885 - 1970) was an English Classical scholar. ... Amphoræ on display in Bodrum Castle, Turkey An amphora is a type of ceramic vase with two handles, used for the transportation and storage of perishable goods and more rarely as containers for the ashes of the dead or as prize awards. ... This article is about the capital of Germany. ... Red-figure pottery is a style of Greek pottery in which the figure outlines, details and the background are painted black, while the figure itself is not painted. ...

His painted figures are usually isolated or paired without framing devices against a glossy black ground, so integral to the forms of their superbly-made bodies that the wares are thought to have been produced in his shop. Over a long career he trained many younger vase-painters, including, probably, the Achilles Painter. The Achilles Painter, working from the 460s to the 420s BC, is the pseudonym of an Attic Greek vase-painter of outstanding quality (see Pottery of Ancient Greece), whose refined figure of Achilles on a red-figure amphora of ca. ...

Many of his valued works were preserved as elite grave goods in the necropoli of Magna Graecia, notably at Vulci, Nola and Locri. In archaeology and anthropology grave goods are the items interred along with the body. ... Magna Graecia around 280 b. ... Volci or Vulci is a Latinized form of an Etruscan city, which the Etruscans called Velch. ... This article needs to be updated. ... Locri Epizephyri (epi-Zephyros, under the West wind; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was founded about 680 BC on the Italian shores of the Ionian Sea, near modern Capo Zefirio, by the Locrians, apparently by Opuntii (East Locrians) from the city of Opus, but including Ozolae (West...

Footnotes

1. ^ Perseus Project. Berlin F 2160

References

• Berlin Painter on-line
• The Berlin Painter: Archaeology of the Corpus Present and former whereabouts of the vases attributed to the Berlin Painter.
• Perseus Project: "Thirty-three Vases whose Painter is 'Berlin Painter'"
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, red-figure amphora, c 490 BCE Figure of a rhapsode and a judge.
• Antikenmuseum, Basel: Lidded Amphora Figure of Athena
• Altes Museum, Berlin: Amphora attributed to the Berlin Painter

• Martin Robertson, The Art of Vase-painting in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992)
• Andrew J. Clark, Maya Elston, Mary Louise Hart, Understanding Greek Vases: A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques (Getty Museum Publications 2002)
• Donna Carol Kurtz (editor), The Berlin Painter: Drawings by Sir John Beazley (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology) 1983