Ancient Greek Pottery Painters

Michael Lahanas

Griechische Maler in der Antike

Part 1 (A-J)

According to a legend the first figurine in clay was produced by Boutades, a Sikyonian potter at Corinth thought to have lived before 657 BC. Boutades produced the figurine on behalf of his daughter, "who was in love with a young man; and she, when he was going abroad, drew in outline on the wall the shadow of his face thrown by a lamp. Her father, having pressed clay onto this, made a relief that he hardened by exposing it to fire along with the rest of his pottery" Pliny. The daughter of Boutades sketched the outline of a boy’s shadow, cast on the wall by lamplight as he slept. Delighted with the perfection of the likeness, Boutades cut out the shape, filled in the outline with clay and made a model that he dried and baked (Pliny 35. 151-152 and Athenagoras, Legatio pro Christianis 17). Antonio Corso The Position of Portraiture in Early Hellenistic Art Criticism

* Aberdeen-Painter

* Acheloos Painter (525-—500 BC) Vase Painter BF

* Acestorides Painter

* Achilles Painter 5th Century BC Vase Painter

Farewell to a warrior, "Achilles painter", attic white lekythos, 450-440 BC, found at , by John Oakley, College of William and Mary in Virginia (Perseus) , ,

* Aeschines Painter

* Aetion, Painter

Painter of Alexander's Marriage to Roxana, was not able to turn the aim of painting from this deceptive illusion.

* Affector Painter (540-—520 BC) Vase Painter BF

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* Andokides ( fl. 530-510 BC) Potter

* Antidoros Painter

* Antimenes Painter (fl. 530-510) Century BC Vase Painter BF

* Antiphon Painter (fl. 500-480) Century BC Vase Painter RF

* Apollodorus (fl. end of fifth century BC) Painter

applied the principles of Agatharchos to figures. According to Plutarch, he was the first to discover variation in the shade of colors, and, according to Pliny, the first master to paint objects as they appeared in nature. He had the title of skiagraphos (shadow-painter), and possibly gave a semi-natural background with perspective. This was an improvement, but not a perfection. It is not likely that the backgrounds were other than conventional settings for the figure. Even these were not at once accepted by the painters of the period, but were 'turned to profit in the hands of the followers.

* Archikles Painter

* Aristarete, Painter (w)

daughter and student of Nearchus, painted an Asclepius according to Pliny the Elder

* Aristides, Painter

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student (and son?) of Nikomachus painted pathetic scenes, and was perhaps as remarkable for teaching art to the celebrated Euphranor (fl. 360 BC) as for his own productions.

* Aristolaos (Αριστόλαος)(c. 350 BC) Painter

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* Baltimore Painter ( fl. c. 330–c. 310 BC). Vase Painter

Active in Apulia, Italy, named after a large volute krater in Baltimore. Mythological scenes.

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* Brygos Painter ( fl. 490-470 BC) Vase Painter RF

* Castellani Painter c. 550 BC

* Clinic Vasepainter

A physician ( iatros ) bleeding a patient, Clinic Vasepainter, Athenian Red-figured Arybalos " Peytel Arybalos", H 8.5 cm , 480-470 BC, CA 2138 , Louvre, Department des Antiquites Grecques/Romaines, Paris, France

* Corinthianizing Painter 6th Century BC Vase Painter

* Dikaios Painter (around 510 BC) Vase Painter RF

* Douris (fl. 500 -460 BC) Vase Painter RF, WG

, by Diana Buitron-Oliver (Perseus) ,

* Eagle Painter (fl. 530-500 BC) Vase Painter

* Epiktetos II Painter

* Epikylos Painter

* Epimenes Painter around 500 BC

* Erginos Painter

* Ergoteles Painter

* Eucharides (fl. 500-470 BC) Vase Painter

* Euheiros Painter

* Euemporos Painter

* Euergides Painter

* Eugrammos

mentioned by Pliny, worked in the Etruscan Region

* Euphranor, Painter

Euphranor had great versatility in the arts, and in painting was renowned for his pictures of the Olympian gods at Athens. Work: Battle of Mantineia

* Euphiletos (fl. 530-520 BC) Painter

* Euphronios 520 - 470 BC Potter, Vase-painter, Potter


, by Jenifer Neils, Case Western Reserve University (Perseus), one of the red figure technique pioneers

* Euxitheos 6th Century BC Potter

* Exekias (fl. 540-–520 BC) Vase Painter and Potter

* Foundry Painter (fl. 500-470 BC) Vase Painter RF

* Glaukytes Painter

* Gorgon Painter (fl. 600-580 BC) Vase Painter

* Harrow Painter 500 BC Vase Painter

* Helena 5th Century BC Painter (w)

* Hermogenes Painter

* Hermonax Painter

* Hunt Painter (fl. 565-–530 BC) BF

* Hypereides Painter

* Hypsis Painter