The Honolulu Painter painted designs on

ancient Greek pottery Ancient Greek pottery, due to its relative durability, comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient Greece, and since there is so much of it (over 100,000 painted vases are recorded in the Corpus vasorum antiquorum), it has exe ...

in the

Greek city-state ''Polis'' (, ; grc-gre, πόλις, ), plural ''poleis'' (, , ), literally means "city" in Greek. In Ancient Greece, it originally referred to an administrative and religious city center, as distinct from the rest of the city. Later, it also ...

of Corinth during the sixth century BCE. Since he did not sign his work, his true name is unknown. Based upon stylistic considerations, University of California at Berkeley archeology professor

Darrell Arlynn Amyx __NOTOC__ Darrell Arlynn Amyx (2 April 1911 – 10 January 1997) was an American classical archaeologist. His principal field of study was the archaic pottery of Corinth. Complementing the pioneering work of John Beazley and Humfry Payne, Amyx a ...

(1911–1997) recognized several pieces of ancient pottery dispersed in museums around the world as having been painted by the same hand. He named this anonymous artist the Honolulu Painter after his most important work, a pyxis in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art.

References

* Amyx, Darrell Arlynn, The Honolulu Painter and the ‘Delicate Style’, ''Antike Kunst'', Vol. 5, 1962, pp. 3–8.
6th-century BC deaths Ancient Greek vase painters Anonymous artists of antiquity Ancient Corinthians Year of birth unknown {{Greece-artist-stub