The Edinburgh 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 around 500 BC. His speciality was

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 real name is unknown. His conventional name is derived from his

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1956.436.

Gallery

Image:NAMA Pélée, Achille & Chiron.jpg, ''Lekythos'', Peleas, Achilles and

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Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

, National Museum 550 Image:NAMA Thésée & taureau.jpg, ''Lekythos'',

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and the bull, Athens, National Museum 1124 Image:NAMA Ulysse & sirène 1.jpg, ''Lekythos'', Odysseus and a

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, Athens, National Museum 1130 Image:Edinburgh P 1872.23.12.JPG,

Name vase In classical archaeology, a name vase is a specific "vase"In the study of ancient Greek pottery a "vase" is a general term covering all pottery shapes. whose painter's name is unknown but whose workshop style has been identified. The painter is co ...

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Bibliography

* C. H. Emilie Haspels: ''Attic black-figured lekythoi'', Paris 1936, p. 86-89. 215-221. *

John Beazley Sir John Davidson Beazley, (; 13 September 1885 – 6 May 1970) was a British classical archaeologist and art historian, known for his classification of Attic vases by artistic style. He was Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the Un ...

: ''Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters'', Oxford 1956, p. 476-480. * John Boardman: ''Schwarzfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Ein Handbuch'', Mainz 1977, , p. 159. *

Thomas Mannack Thomas Mannack (born in 1958) is a German classical archaeologist. Mannack obtained his Doctorate in 1992 with at the University of Kiel. The thema of his dissertation was ''Beazleys spätere und späteste Manieristen''. He is a specialist in ...

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

External links

Vases by the Edinburgh Painter in Perseus

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