The Pholoe Painter was an ancient Corinthian vase painter in 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 ...

; his real name is unknown. He was active during the Middle Corinthian period (c. 600–575 BC) and specialised in decorating '' skyphoi''. He is named after a ''skyphos'' with an image of

Herakles Heracles ( ; grc-gre, Ἡρακλῆς, , glory/fame of Hera), born Alcaeus (, ''Alkaios'') or Alcides (, ''Alkeidēs''), was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, and the foster son of Amphitryon.By his adoptive ...

in the cave of Pholos, combating several centaurs. The work is dated to about 580 BC. It was discovered in Corinth and acquired by the Louvre in 1884.Inventory L 63 (MNC 677)

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* Thomas Mannack: ''Griechische Vasenmalerei. Eine Einführung''. Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, S. 101, . {{Authority control Ancient Greek vase painters Ancient Corinthians 6th-century BC Greek people Anonymous artists of antiquity