The Amykos Painter (active around 430–400 BC in

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) was the name given to a

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vase painter who worked in the

ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic p ...

red-figure pottery Red-figure vase painting is one of the most important styles of figural Greek vase painting. It developed in Athens around 520 BCE and remained in use until the late 3rd century BCE. It replaced the previously dominant style of black-figure va ...

technique. His exact date of birth and death are unknown. As with any of the artisans working during the (late) fifth century BC, very little is understood about the Amykos Painter's life. It is generally agreed by scholars that the Amykos Painter learned his trade in Athens. He owes his name to a depiction on a Lucanian

hydria The hydria ( el, ὑδρία; plural hydriai) is a form of Greek pottery from between the late Geometric period (7th century BC) and the Hellenistic period (3rd century BC). The etymology of the word hydria was first noted when it was stamped o ...

depicting

Amykos In Greek mythology, Amykos ( grc, Ἄμυκος), Latinized as Amycus, was the king of the Bebryces, a mythical people in Bithynia. Family Amycus was the son of Poseidon and the Bithynian nymph Melia. Mythology Amycus was a doughty man but ...

, who was the featured subject in one of his surviving works which currently resides at the

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. Among countless other vases, there is also a red-figure bell-krater depicting ''

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and two

maenads In Greek mythology, maenads (; grc, μαινάδες ) were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of the Thiasus, the god's retinue. Their name literally translates as "raving ones". Maenads were known as Bassarids, ...

'' which has been attributed to him.

References

* Boardman, John. ''The History of Greek Vases.'' London: Thames and Hudson, 2001. *Cook, R.M. ''Greek Painted Pottery.'' 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 1997. * Beazley, J. D. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-figure Vase-painters and to Attic Red-figure Vase-painters (second edition),. Oxford: Clarendon, 1971. * Folsom, Robert S. Attic Red Figure Pottery. Park City, NJ: Noyes, 1976. Print.

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Works at the British Museum, London.Works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.Lucanian nestoris at the Louvre, Paris.Images at Perseus site
5th-century BC deaths Ancient Greek vase painters Anonymous artists of antiquity Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Collection of the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris {{AncientGreece-bio-stub

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