The Chrysis Painter was an anonymous ancient Greek

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 ...

vase painter who worked in

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around 420–410 BC.British Museu
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, a

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now kept in the

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in New York (accession number 06.1021.185). John Davidson Beazley, ''Attic red-figured vases in American museums'', Harvard University Press, 1918. p. 183. which has the name "Chrysis" () inscribed next to the figure of a woman. He has been described as belonging to the school of the Dinos Painter.John Davidson Beazley, ''Attic red-figure vase-painters'', Vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1963. p.1158f. A total of five pieces have been ascribed to the Chrysis Painter. Another of them is kept in the

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(vase E503).

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