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Encyclopedia > List of Greek Vase Painters

The following is a list of Ancient Greek vase painters who have been identified either by name or by style.

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Geometric Period

  • Dipylon Master
  • Hirschfield Painter
  • Painter of Athens
  • Birdseed painter

Dipylon Vase The Geometric Style is a style of Greek art preserved largely in the form of vase painting that flourished towards the end of the Greek Dark Ages, circa 900 BCE to 800 BCE. Its centre was in Athens and was diffused amongst the trading cities of the Aegean. ... The Diplyon Master was a Greek vase painter who was active circa 760 to circa 735 BCE. He worked in Athens, where he and his workshop produced large funerary vessels for those interred in the Dipylon cemetery, from whence his name. ...

Black Figure Period

  • Acheloos Painter,
  • Affecter,
  • Amasis Painter,
  • Anagyrus Painter,
  • Anakles,
  • Andokides Painter,
  • Antidoros,
  • Antimenes painter,
  • Archikles,
  • Athena Painter,
  • Beldam Painter,
  • Bellerophon Painter,
  • Berlin Painter,
  • Bowdoin Painter,
  • Bucci Painter,
  • Cactus Painter,
  • Camel Painter,
  • Camtar Painter,
  • Castellani Painter,
  • Centaur Painter,
  • Cerameicus Painter,
  • Chiusi Painter,
  • Daybreak Painter,
  • Diosphos Painter,
  • Edinburgh Painter,
  • Elbows Out,
  • Epitimos Painter,
  • Ergoteles,
  • Eucharides Painter,
  • Euphiletos Painter,
  • Exekias,
  • Gela Painter,
  • Glaukytes,
  • Goltyr Painter,
  • Gorgon Painter,
  • Haimon Painter
  • Heidelberg Painter
  • Hermogenes
  • Kaeltes
  • Kleitias
  • Kleophrades Painter
  • Lion Painter
  • Lydos
  • Lysippides Painter
  • Madrid Painter
  • Marathon Painter
  • Mastos Painter
  • Nearchos
  • Nessos Painter
  • Nikosthenes Painter
  • Nikoxenos Painter
  • Oakeshott Painter
  • Pamphaios
  • Panther Painter
  • Paseas
  • Pharos Painter
  • Phrynos Painter
  • Piraeus Painter
  • Polos Painter
  • Priam Painter
  • Princeton Painter
  • Psiax
  • Ptoon Painter
  • Ready Painter
  • Red Line Painter
  • Rycroft Painter
  • Sakonides
  • Sandel Painter
  • Sappho Painter
  • Sikelos
  • Skythes
  • Sokles Painter
  • Sophilos
  • Sosimos
  • Swing Painter
  • Taleides Painter
  • Teisias
  • Theseus Painter
  • Timiades Painter
  • Tleson Painter
  • Wraith Painter
  • Xenokles

The black-figure pottery technique is a style of ancient Greek pottery painting in which the decoration appears as black silhouettes on a red background. ... The Acheloos painter (active around 525 - 500 BCE. in Athens) was a Greek vase painter of the black-figure style. ... Greek vase painter, practioner of the black-figure technque, flourished in the second half of the 6th century BCE. His name, a later scholarly appellation as none of his work is signed, derives from the highly stylized manner of his figure drawing. ... Olive harvest, ca. ... The Berlin Painter (working c. ... Exekias or Execias was one of the most famous ancient Greek potters, who worked between approximately 550 BC - 525 BC. He was renowned for his works of black-figure pottery, acting as both potter and painter. ... Kleitias (Greek: Κλειτίας, variously transliterated Cleitias, Klitias, Clitias) was an Athenian vase painter of the black figure style who flourished c. ... 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. ... Lydos was an Athenian vase painter who flourished in the mid 6th century BC. More than 130 vases of various shapes and sizes are attributed to him, though only two are signed. ... Dionysos holding out a kantharos, black-figured plate by Psiax, ca. ... One of the best early Athenian black-figure potters. ...

Red Figure Archaic Period

  • Achilles Painter
  • Agrigento Painter
  • Akestorides Painter
  • Ambrosios Painter
  • Andokides Painter
  • Apollodoros (vase painter)
  • Argos Painter
  • Bonn Painter
  • Boot Painter
  • Bowdoin-Eye Painter
  • Briseis Painter
  • Brygos Painter
  • 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)
  • Dutuit Painter
  • Eleuis Painter
  • Elpinikos Painter
  • Epeleios Painter
  • Epidromos Painter
  • Epiktetos
  • Euaichme Painter
  • Euaion Painter
  • Eucharides Painter
  • Euergides Painter
  • Euphronios
  • Euthymides
  • Flying-Angel Painter
  • Foundry Painter
  • Gales Painter
  • Gallatin Painter
  • Goluchow Painter
  • Harrow Painter
  • Hegesiboulos Painter
  • Hermaios Painter
  • Hermonax
  • Hischylos Painter
  • Hypsis
  • Kiss Painter
  • Leningrad Painter
  • Makron (vase painter)
  • Matsch Painter
  • Myson
  • Nikon Painter
  • Oidipus Painter
  • Oinanthe Painter
  • Oionokles Painter
  • Onesimos (vase painter)
  • Pan Painter
  • Pasiades Painter
  • Pedieus Painter
  • Peithinos Painter
  • Perseus Painter
  • Pheidippos
  • Phintias
  • Pig Painter
  • Pithos Painter
  • Poseidon Painter
  • Providence Painter
  • Psiax
  • Salting Painter
  • Scheurleer Painter
  • Sikelos
  • Siren Painter
  • Skythes
  • Smikros
  • Syleus Painter
  • Syleus Painter
  • Syriskos Painter
  • Telephos Painter
  • Thalia Painter
  • Thaliarchos Painter
  • Tithonos Painter
  • Triptolemos Painter
  • Troilos Painter
  • Tyszkiewicz Painter
  • Winchester Painter

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. ... Athenian red-figure vase painter active around 500 BCE. His name is found on two cups. ... Dionysos and satyrs, tondo from a kylix by the Brygos Painter, ca. ... The Dragon of Kholkis disgorges Jason, attrbuted to Douris, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano. ... Scythian bowman, tondo from a red-figure plate by Epiktetos, ca. ... 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. ... 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. ... Libation scene. ... Kylix made by Euphronios, ca. ... Licata (called Phintias in ancient times) is a city located in southern Sicily, Italy, with a population over 40000. ... Dionysos holding out a kantharos, black-figured plate by Psiax, ca. ...

Red Figure Classical Period

  • Aberdeen Painter
  • Achilles Painter
  • Aegisthus Painter
  • Aischines Painter
  • Aison (vase painter)
  • Alkimachos Painter
  • Altamura Painter
  • Amazon Painter
  • Ancona Painter*
  • Aristophanes
  • 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
  • Diomed Painter
  • Duomo Painter
  • Dwarf PAinter
  • Eleusian Painter
  • Erbach Painter
  • Eretria Painter
  • 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
  • Kadmos Painter
  • Kekrops Painter
  • Kleophron Painter
  • Klugmann Painter
  • Lewis Painter
  • Lid Painter
  • Lykaon Painter
  • Marlay Painter
  • Medias Painter
  • Meleager Painter
  • Midas Painter
  • Mikion Painter
  • Mykonos Painter
  • Naples Painter
  • Nausicaa Painter
  • Nekyia Painter
  • Niobid Painter
  • Orchard Painter
  • Oreithyia Painter
  • Orestes Painter
  • Orpheus Painter
  • Painter of the Oxford Grypomachy
  • Pantoxena Painter
  • Pasithea Painter
  • Peleus Painter
  • Penelope Painter
  • Penthesilea Painter
  • Phiale Painter
  • Pistoxenos Painter
  • Polion
  • Polydektes Painter
  • Polygnotos
  • Pompe Painter
  • Pronomos Painter
  • Quadrate Painter
  • Painter of the Reading lekanis
  • Reed Painter
  • Retorted Painter
  • Subouroff Painter
  • Semele Painter
  • Shuvalov Painter
  • Sotades
  • Spreckels Painter
  • Suessula Painter
  • Syracuse Painter
  • Telos Painter
  • Tarquinia Painter
  • 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

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. ... Aison was a vase painter of the Ancient Greek red-figure style. ...

Hellenistic Period

  • Asteas
  • Baltimore Painter
  • Capua Painter
  • Darius Painter
  • Ganymede Painter
  • Marsyas Painter
  • Patera Painter
  • Python
  • Underworld Painter
  • Varrese Painter

Laocoön Group, Vatican Museums, Rome The art of the Hellenistic period has long been the victim of the relative disdain attached to the period. ...

External links

  • Perseus List of Vase Painters


 

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