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The Eretria Painter was an Ancient Greece, ancient Greek Attica, Attic Red-figure pottery, red-figure vase painter. He worked in the final quarter of the 5th century BC. The Eretria Painter is assumed to have been a contemporary of the Shuvalov Painter; he is considered one of the most interesting painters of his time. Many of his best works are painted on ''Oinochoe, oinochoai'' and belly ''lekythos, lekythoi''. His paintings often depict many figures, moving in groups across all available surfaces. He also painted such vessels as figure-shaped vases or head-shaped ''kantharos, kantharoi''. Even as the vase shapes he painted on are unusual, his themes are conventional: athletes, satyrs and maenads, and mythological scenes. There are also some careful studies of women. He also painted White Ground Technique, white-ground vases. A ''lekythos'' in New York shows a funeral scene, typical of white-ground painting: Achilles is mourning Patroclus; the nereids bring him new weapons. The Eretria Painter's drawing style influenced later artists, e.g. the Meidias Painter and his school.
The Eretria Painter was an Ancient Greece, ancient Greek Attica, Attic Red-figure pottery, red-figure vase painter. He worked in the final quarter of the 5th century BC. The Eretria Painter is assumed to have been a contemporary of the Shuvalov Painter; he is considered one of the most interesting painters of his time. Many of his best works are painted on ''Oinochoe, oinochoai'' and belly ''lekythos, lekythoi''. His paintings often depict many figures, moving in groups across all available surfaces. He also painted such vessels as figure-shaped vases or head-shaped ''kantharos, kantharoi''. Even as the vase shapes he painted on are unusual, his themes are conventional: athletes, satyrs and maenads, and mythological scenes. There are also some careful studies of women. He also painted White Ground Technique, white-ground vases. A ''lekythos'' in New York shows a funeral scene, typical of white-ground painting: Achilles is mourning Patroclus; the nereids bring him new weapons. The Eretria Painter's drawing style influenced later artists, e.g. the Meidias Painter and his school.
Bibliography
*John Beazley, John D. Beazley. ''Attic Red Figure Vase Painters'' (2nd edition). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. *Adrienne Lezzi-Hafter. ''Der Eretria-Maler. Werke und Weggefährten'', Mainz, 1988 . *John Boardman (art historian), John Boardman. ''Rotfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Die klassische Zeit'', Philipp von Zabern, Mainz, 1991 (Kulturgeschichte der Antiken Welt, Vol 48), especially p. 102, . {{DEFAULTSORT:Eretria Painter 5th-century BC deaths Ancient Greek vase painters Anonymous artists of antiquity People from Attica Year of birth unknown