Ancient Greek vase painters

Exekias (, Exēkías) was an ancient Greek vase painter and potter who was active in Athens between roughly 545 BC and 530 BC. Exekias worked mainly in the black-figure technique, which involved the painting of scenes using a clay slip that fired to black, with details created through incision. Exekias is regarded by art historians as an artistic visionary whose masterful use of incision and psychologically sensitive compositions mark him as one of the greatest of all Attic vase painters. The Andokides painter and the Lysippides Painter are thought to have been students of Exekias.

Euphronios (; c. 535 – after 470 BC) was an ancient Greek vase painter and potter, active in Athens in the late 6th and early 5th centuries BC. As part of the so-called "Pioneer Group," (a modern name given to a group of vase painters who were instrumental in effecting the change from black-figure to red-figure pottery), Euphronios was one of the most important artists of the red-figure technique. His works place him at the transition from Late Archaic to Early Classical art, and he is one of the first known artists in history to have signed his work.

ancient Attic-Greek vase-painter of the red-figure style

Greek vase painter

Euthymides (; ) was an ancient Athenian potter and painter of vases. He was a member of the art movement later known as the Pioneer Group for their exploration of the new decorative style known as red-figure pottery. His works are known for their innovative use of foreshortening, and include the Revellers Vase, inscribed with a taunting message addressed to his fellow painter and rival Euphronios.

ancient Athenian vase painter

Kleitias (Greek: Κλειτίας, sometimes rendered as Klitias) was an ancient Athenian vase painter of the black-figure style who flourished BCE. Kleitias' most celebrated work today is the François Vase (), which bears over two hundred figures in its six friezes. Painted inscriptions on four pots and one ceramic stand name Kleitias as their painter and Ergotimos as their potter, showing the craftsmen's close collaboration. A variety of other fragments have been attributed to him on a stylistic basis.

ancient Greek vase painter (5./6. century BCE)

5th-century BC Greek vase painter and potter

thumb|Palaestra|Palaistra scene on a plate, about 520/10 BCE. [[Louvre.]] Epiktetos was an Attic vase painter in the early red-figure style. Besides Oltos, he was the most important painter of the Pioneer Group. He was active between 520 BCE and 490 BCE. His name translates as "newly acquired", which is most probably a reference to his slave status.

Athenian vase painter

ancient Attic-Greek vase-painter of the red-figure style

ancient Attic-Greek vase-painter of the red-figure style c. 420 to c. 400 BCE

ancient Greek vase painter (5./6. century BCE)

ancient Greek vase painter (5./6. century BCE)

thumb|The madness of Heracles, side A from the Madrid Krater signed by Asteas, [[National Archaeological Museum of Spain]]

ancient Greek vase painter

Oltos was a Late Archaic Greek vase painter, active in Athens from 525 BC to 500 BC. About 150 works by him are known. Two pieces, a cup in Berlin (Antikensammlung F 2264) and a cup in Tarquinia (Museo Nazionale Tarquiniese RC 6848), are signed by him as painter.

ancient Greek attic geometric vase painter

Late 6th century BC Athenian red-figure vase-painter

ancient Greek painter

Athenian red-figure vase painter (5. century BCE)

Apulian vase-painter

painter and vase painter (c. 470 to 450 BC)

early 5th-century BC Athenian vase painter

a number of red-figure vase painters working in Kerameikos or the potters' quarter of Athens around the beginning of the 5th century BCE

ancient Greek vase painter

ancient Greek black-figure vase painter

thumb|right|220px|Maenads and [[Dionysos holding a kantharos, stamnos by Smikros, Louvre Museum.]]

Attic vase painter of the Early Proto-Attic style

thumb|260px|Armoured warrior on a plate acribed to Psiax, circa 510 BC, found in the sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia, [[Antikensammlung Berlin.]] Psiax was an Attic vase painter of the transitional period between the black-figure and red-figure styles. His works date to circa 525 to 505 BC and comprise about 60 surviving vases, two of which bear his signature. Initially he was allocated the name "Menon Painter" by John Beazley. Only later was it realised that the artist was identical with the painters signing as "Psiax".

thumb|200px|Hermonax: stamnos G 416, death of Orpheus, Paris, [[Louvre]]

Lydos (Greek: Λυδός, the Lydian) was an Attic vase painter in the black-figure style. Active between about 560 and 540 BC, he was the main representative of the "Lydos Group". His signature, ό Λυδός, ho Lydos ("the Lydian"), inscribed on two vases, is informative regarding the cultural background of the artist. Either he immigrated to Athens from the Lydian Empire of King Kroisos, or he was born in Athens as the son of Lydian parents. In any case, he learned his trade in Athens.

thumb|260px|Sophilos' signature: "sofilos me grafsen" (“Sophilos painted me”) Sophilos (; active about 590 – 570 BC) was an Attic potter and vase painter in the black-figure style. Sophilos is the oldest Attic vase painter so far to be known by his true name. Fragments of two wine basins (dinoi) in Athens are signed by him, indicating that he both potted and painted them. In total, 37 vessels are ascribed to him, mostly amphorae, dinoi, kraters, as well as three pinakes. Apart from his work for the domestic market, he was also one of the masters of major significance in the process of su

Attic red-figure vase painter

ancient Greek Attic artist, vase painter, active between circa 530 and 510 BC

ancient Attic-Greek red-figure vase painter

Ancient Lucanean-Greek vase-painter of the red-figure style

ancient Attic-Greek vase-painter of the red-figure style

ancient Greek vase painter

ancient Attic-Greek vase-painter of the red-figure style

Attic vase painter of the red-figure style

Ancient Lucanean-Greek vase-painter of the red-figure style

ancient Attic-Greek black-figure vase-painter

vase painter

ancient Greek vase painter

ancient Greek vase painter

ancient Attic-Greek vase-painter of the orientalizing style (protoattic)

ancient Attic-Greek vase-painter of black-figure and white-ground styles

ancient Apulian-Greek vase-painter of red-figure style

classical Greece vase painter

ancient Apulian-Greek red-figure vase-painter

ancient Greek black-figure vase-painter

ancient Apulian Greek vase painter of the red-figure style

ancient Greek vase painter

ancient Greek vase painter

ancient Attic-Greek red-figure vase-painter

ancient Greek proto-attic Vase painter

Greek vase painter

Group of Ancient Attic-Greek vase-painters of the black-figure style