Geometric Art is a phase of Greek art, characterised largely by geometric motifs in vase painting, that flourished towards the end of the Greek Dark Ages, circa 900 BCE to 800 BCE.... Period
The Dipylon Master was an Ancient Greece vase painter who was active from around 760-750 BCE. He worked in Athens, where he and his workshop produced large funerary vessels for those interred in the Dipylon cemetery, whence his name comes....
The black-figure pottery technique is a style of ancient Pottery of Ancient Greece painting in which the decoration appears as black silhouettes on a red background.... Period
The Acheloos Painter was an ancient Greece 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....
The Affecter was an Ancient Greece vase painter and a practitioner of the black-figure technique who flourished during the second half of the 6th century BCE....
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 we therefore called the Amasis painter....
The Andokides Painter was an ancient Athenian vase painter, active from 535 to approximately 515 BCE. His work is unsigned, he is named therefore after the potter for whom he worked....
The Antimenes Painter was an Ancient Greece vase painter who flourished between 530 and 510 BCE. He was one of the most prolific black-figure artists of Athens and was named after a Kalos inscription exalting Antimenes on a hydria ....
The Athena Painter was a Late Archaic Attica vase painter of the early fifth century BCE who specialized in Lekythos and Oenochoe with the white ground technique....
"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....
Exekias or Execias was an ancient Pottery of Ancient Greece, 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 technique called black-figure pottery...
Kleitias was an ancient Athenian vase painter of the black figure style who flourished c. 580?550 BCE. He is known from five vases, two cups, and a number of cup fragments....
The "Kleophrades Painter" is the name given to an anonymous ancient Athenian vase painter flourishing between about 505 BCE and 475 BCE, whose work is considered to be amongst the finest of the red figure style....
Lydos was an ancient Athenian vase painter who flourished in the mid 6th century BCE. More than 130 vases of various shapes and sizes are attributed to him, though only two are signed....
The Nessos Painter , was a pioneer of Attic black-figure vase painting. He is considered to be the first Athenian to adopt the Corinthian style who went on to developed his own style and introduced innovations....
Psiax was an Ancient Greece vase painter. He played an important role in the transition from Attic black-figure to red-figure. Formerly called the Menon Painter, after the potter?s signature on a red-figure amphora , he signed two red-figure alabastra as painter, both of which bear the signature of the potter Hilinos [Karlsruhe, Bad....
Sophilos was one of the greatest early Athenian black-figure potters who flourished between 590 and 580 BC. His most famous pot was a dinos upon which was depicted the wedding of Peleus and the nymph Thetis ....
Red-figure vase painting is one of the most important styles of figural Pottery of ancient Greece. It developed in Athens around 530 BC and remained in use until the late 3rd century BC.... Archaic Period
The Achilles Painter, working from the 460s to the 420s BC, is the pseudonym of an ancient Attic Ancient Greece vase-painter of outstanding quality , whose refined figure of Achilles on a Red-figure pottery amphora of ca....
The Andokides Painter was an ancient Athenian vase painter, active from 535 to approximately 515 BCE. His work is unsigned, he is named therefore after the potter for whom he worked....
The Berlin Painter is the conventional name given to an Attica Ancient Greece 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 Brygos Painter was an Ancient Greece Attica Red-figure pottery vase painter of the Late Archaic Greece period. Together with Onesimos , Douris and Makron , he is among the most important bowl painters of his time....
Epiktetos was an ancient Athenian vase painter who flourished from 520 BCE until 490 BCE. A pioneer of the red-figure pottery technique though he also produced several bilingual pottery....
"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....
Euphronios was an Ancient Greece vase painter and potter, active in Athens in the late 6th and early 5th centuries BC. As part of the so-called "Pioneer Group," Euphronios was one of the most important artists of the Red-figure pottery technique....
Euthymides was an ancient Athens potter and painter of vases, primarily active between 515 and 500 BC. He was a member of the Ancient Greece art movement later to be known as "Pioneer Group" for their exploration of the new decorative style known as red-figure pottery....
The Foundry Painter was an Ancient Greece Attica Red-figure pottery vase painter of the Archaic Greece period. His real name is unknown; the conventional name is derived from his most famous work, the Berlin Foundry Cup....
The Harrow Painter was an Ancient Greece 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....
Hermonax was a Greek vase painter of the Attica Red-figure pottery style. At present, ten vases signed with the phrase "Hermonax has painted it" are known....
Makron was an Ancient Greece vase painter who was active in Athens from around 490 until 480 BC. Though only one signed example of his work is known to have survived, some 350 vases have been attributed to him, making him one of the best surviving painters of the red-figure period....
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....
The Pan Painter was an Ancient Greece vase painter of the Attica Red-figure pottery style. His name is derived from his name vase, a bell krater in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which depicts Pan pursuing a shepherd on the front, and the death of Aktaion on the back....
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....
The Providence Painter is the conventional name given to a painter of the Attica Red-figure pottery style. He was active around 470 BC.The Providence Painter is considered to have been a pupil of the Berlin Painter....
Psiax was an Ancient Greece vase painter. He played an important role in the transition from Attic black-figure to red-figure. Formerly called the Menon Painter, after the potter?s signature on a red-figure amphora , he signed two red-figure alabastra as painter, both of which bear the signature of the potter Hilinos [Karlsruhe, Bad....
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....
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. Beside Euphronios, Euthymides, Hypsis and that Dikaios painter Smikros was one of the most important representatives of the so-called Pioneer Group of Athenian red figure vase painting....
The Triptolemos Painter was an ancient Greek vase painter, belonging to the Attica Red-figure pottery style. He was active in Athens between 490 and 470 BC....
The Achilles Painter, working from the 460s to the 420s BC, is the pseudonym of an ancient Attic Ancient Greece vase-painter of outstanding quality , whose refined figure of Achilles on a Red-figure pottery amphora of ca....
Aristophanes was an Ancient Greece vase painter of the Attica Red-figure pottery 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 ....
The Dinos Painter was an Attica Red-figure pottery 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....
The Eretria Painter was an Ancient Greece Attica Red-figure pottery 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....
The Meleager Painter was an Ancient Greece vase painter of the Attica red-figure pottery tradition. He was active in the first third of the 4th century BC....
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....
The Penthesilea Painter was a Greek vase painter of the Attica Red-figure pottery 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....
The Phiale Painter was a painter of the Attica Red-figure pottery style. He was active from circa 460 to 430 BC. The Phiale Painter is assumed to have been a pupil of the Achilles Painter....
The Shuvalov Painter was an Attica vase painter of the Red-figure pottery style, active between 440 and 410 BC, i.e. in the Classical Greece period ....
The Tarporley Painter was an Apulia Red-figure pottery Apulian vase painting. 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"....
The Tarqunia Painter was an ancient Attic vase painter working in red-figure pottery 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 II, plate 22.1....
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 hydria and krater were painted....
The Baltimore Painter was an ancient Apulia Apulian vase painting 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....
The Darius Painter was an Apulian Apulian vase painting and the most eminent representative at the end of the "Ornate Style" in South Italian Red-figure pottery vase painting....
The Marsyas Painter was an Ancient Greece vase painter of the Red-figure pottery 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....
The Varrese Painter was an Apulian Red-figure pottery Apulian vase painting. 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....
Thanks to its relative durability, pottery is a large part of the archaeological record of Ancient Greece, and because we have so much of it it has exerted a disproportionately large influence on our understanding of Greek society....
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....
The arts of ancient Greece has exercised an enormous influence on the culture of many countries from ancient times until the present, particularly in the areas of sculpture and architecture....
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 assign relative dates to the Archaeology of their sites....
The black-figure pottery technique is a style of ancient Pottery of Ancient Greece painting in which the decoration appears as black silhouettes on a red background....
Red-figure vase painting is one of the most important styles of figural Pottery of ancient Greece. It developed in Athens around 530 BC and remained in use until the late 3rd century BC....
The National Archaeological Museum of Athens in Athens houses some of the most important artifacts from a variety of archaeological locations around Greece from prehistory to late antiquity....
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