The Phrynos Painter was an

Attic An attic (sometimes referred to as a ''loft'') is a space found directly below the pitched roof of a house or other building; an attic may also be called a ''sky parlor'' or a garret. Because attics fill the space between the ceiling of the ...

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 in

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between c. 560 and 545 BC. He was allocated the conventional name "Phrynos Painter" after the potter Phrynos, as he had painted three cups signed by the latter: *Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 03.855 *London,

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1867.5-8.962 (B 424) *Torgiano, Wine Museum A 15 The London cup is considered a masterpiece of the black-figure style. The Phrynos Painter belongs to the so-called Little masters; his paintings are very fine in detail and lively in style. Although a number of vases can be ascribed to him, his style is not yet fully understood.

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*Amsterdam,

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8192: Band cup *London, British Museum 1909.2-16.2: Fragment of a Little-master cup *London, British Museum 1948.8-15.13: Fragment of a Little-master cup *Los Angeles, Oldknow collection:

Lip cup Lip cups are a type of ancient Greek Attic Little-master cups. Lip cups were produced from the middle of the sixth century BC in Athens. They resemble Gordion cups, but their lips or rims were more clearly distinguished from the rest of the body. ...

*Rome, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia 50586:

Merrythought cup The term Merrythought cup is used by scholars to describe a specific type of Attic An attic (sometimes referred to as a ''loft'') is a space found directly below the pitched roof of a house or other building; an attic may also be called a ''s ...

*Vatican,

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16596 (Albizzati 317): Lip cup *Würzburg, Martin-von-Wagner-Museum L 241:

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Type B He also painted five small neck amphorae of the Botkin Class: *Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 98.923 *Brussels,

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A 714 *St. Petersburg,

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4464 (formerly Botkin Collection 1059) *Milan 4636 *New York,

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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. 168-169. *John Beazley: ''Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters'', Oxford 1971, p. 70-71. *Hermann A. G. Brijder: ''A band-cup by the Phrynos Painter in Amsterdam'', in: M. Gnade (Hrsg.): Stips votiva. Papers presented to Conrad Michael Stibbe, Amsterdam 1991, p. 21-30. *Joan Tarlow Haldenstein: ''Little master cups. Studies in 6th century Attic black-figure vase painting'', Dissertation University of Cincinnati 1975, p. 25-32. *Peter Heesen: ''Phrynos (I)'', in: Künstlerlexikon der Antike Bd. 2, 2004, p. 256. *

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: ''Phrynos-Maler'', In: Der Neue Pauly Vol. 9 (2000), Col. 973

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