The Goltyr Painter was an Attic vase painter of the

black-figure style Black-figure pottery painting, also known as the black-figure style or black-figure ceramic ( grc, , }), is one of the styles of Ancient Greek vase painting, painting on pottery of ancient Greece, antique Greek vases. It was especially common bet ...

. He was active in the second quarter of the sixth century BC. He is well known for his work on

Tyrrhenian amphorae The Tyrrhenian amphora is a specific shape of Attic black-figure neck amphora. Tyrrhenian amphorae were only produced during a short period, about 565 to 550 BC. They are ovoid in shape and bear striking decorations. The handle is usually decorat ...

. He mostly painted animals, often with rather bulbous heads.

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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. 94-106. * John Boardman: ''Schwarzfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Ein Handbuch'', Mainz, 1977, , p. 41. * Jeroen Kluiver: ''The Tyrrhenian Group of Black-figure Vases. From the Athenian Kerameikos to the Tombs of South Etruria'', Amsterdam, 2003

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Images and descriptions of a Goltyr Painter vase
held by the Tampa Museum of Art. Perseus Digital Library. {{Authority control Anonymous artists of antiquity Artists of ancient Attica 6th-century BC Greek people