Euthymides was an 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. Euthymides was more minimalist than others in the movement, and his tendency was to draw relatively few figures, and only rarely overlap them. He was admired for his portrayal of human movement and studies of perspective, his painted figures being amongst the first to show foreshortened limbs. Evzones Athens (Greek: Αθήνα, Athína IPA: ) is the capital and largest city of Greece. ... A man shapes pottery as it turns on a wheel. ... Chinese vase A vase with a sunflower pattern The vase is an open container, often used to hold cut flowers. ... Detail of Athenian calyx krater by the Aegisthus painter — 460 BC Red-figure pottery is a style of archaic Greek pottery, later adopted in southern Italy. ... Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features and core self expression. ... Look up perspective in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

His works were normally inscribed "Euthymides painted me". Euthymides was a rival of his fellow Athenian Euphronios, and indeed one of his amphorae is additionally marked with the playful taunt "Euphronios never did anything like this". Death of Sarpedon, painted by Euphronios Euphronios was a Greek painter and potter of red-figure vases, active in Athens between 520 and 470 BC, the time of the Persian Wars. ... 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. ...

Only six vessels painted by Euthymides survive, the most famous of which is probably The Revellers, an amphora depicting three men partying. They are presumably drunk; one of them is drinking straight from a krater, a vessel normally reserved for the mixing of wine and water. A krater (Greek κρατηρ, from the Greek verb κεραννυμι, to mix. ...

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• Neils, J: Phintias and Euthymides