The Athena Painter was an Attic

black-figure Black-figure pottery painting, also known as the black-figure style or black-figure ceramic ( grc, , }), is one of the styles of painting on antique Greek vases. It was especially common between the 7th and 5th centuries BCE, although there are ...

vase painter, active about 490 to 460 BC. His speciality were

white-ground White-ground technique is a style of white ancient Greek pottery and the Greek vase painting, painting in which figures appear on a white background. It developed in the region of Attica, dated to about 500 BC. It was especially associated with ...

'' lekythoi'' painted in the black-figure style. His pseudonym, for his real name is unknown, refers to his preference for

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in his choice of subjects. He was one of the last generation of black figure technique painters. The Athena Painter, along with the

Theseus Painter The Theseus Painter was a decorator of vases in the black-figure style, active in Attica c. 515 to 475 BCE. Later published as He was the leading producer of larger Heron Class skyphoi. Life and work The true name of the Theseus Painter and ...

, continued the tradition of painting large standard ''lekythoi''. His black-figure work was of high quality. Apart from ''lekythoi'', he mainly painted '' oinochai''. Some archaeologists identify him with the

red-figure Red-figure vase painting is one of the most important styles of figural Greek vase painting. It developed in Athens around 520 BCE and remained in use until the late 3rd century BCE. It replaced the previously dominant style of black-figure va ...

Bowdoin Painter.Haspels, 1936. ''Attic Black-figured Lekythoi''. (Cambridge University Press), pp. 157–60. They may, however, simply have worked in the same workshop. His workshop was one of the production centres that developed the painting of white-ground ''lekythoi'', which was to become especially important in the 5th century BC.

References and sources

;References ;Sources * Beazley, J. D. (1956). ''Attic Black-figure Vase-painters'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press), pp. 522–524, 533, 704. * Boardman, J. (1974). ''Athenian Black Figure Vases'' (London: Thames & Hudson), p. 113f, 147–149, figs. 250–255. * John Boardman: ''Schwarzfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Ein Handbuch'', Mainz 1977 (Kulturgeschichte der Antiken Welt, Vol. 1) , p. 160.
Krannert Art Museum: White ground ''lekythos'' with the battle of Kaineus and the Centaurs
* C. H. Emilie Haspels: ''Attic black-figured lekythoi'', Paris 1936, p. 41–165. 254–262 * Matthias Steinhart: ''Apollon auf dem Schwan. Eine neue Lekythos des Athenamalers'', In: Archäologischer Anzeiger (1993) p. 201–212. *

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: ''Haspels addenda: additional references to C. H. E. Haspels Attic black-figured Lekythoi''. Oxford 2006. , p.

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Vases by the Athena Painter in Perseus

{{DEFAULTSORT:Athena Painter Ancient Greek vase painters

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