Edinburgh Painter
| Edinburgh Painter | |
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Possibly Aias Telamonios and Odysseus fighting over Achilles' weapons, painting by the Edinburgh Painter. White-ground Attic lekythos, ca. 500 BC, from Eretria. | |
| Born |
Unknown. Named from one of his vases in the Edinburgh Museum. Before 545 BC Probably Athens |
| Nationality | Athenian |
| Known for | Vase painting |
| Movement | Black-figure style |
The Edinburgh Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active around 500 BC. His speciality was white-ground lekythoi painted in the black-figure techniques.
His real name is unknown. His conventional name is derived from his name vase in Edinburgh, National Museums of Scotland 1956.436.
Gallery
lekythos, Theseus and the bull, Athens, National Museum 1124
Bibliography
- C. H. Emilie Haspels: Attic black-figured lekythoi, Paris 1936, p. 86-89. 215-221.
- John Beazley: Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1956, p. 476-480.
- John Boardman: Schwarzfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Ein Handbuch, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9, p. 159.
- Thomas Mannack: Haspels addenda: additional references to C. H. E. Haspels Attic black-figured Lekythoi. Oxford 2006. ISBN 0-19-726315-1, p.
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