The Anagyros Painter or Anagyrus Painter was a vase painter of the early

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 ...

style, active in the first quarter of the 6th century BC. His works have only been found in inland Attica, mainly at

Vari Vari ( el, Βάρη) is a southern suburb of Athens and former municipality in East Attica, Greece along the Athens coast. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni, of which it is a municipal u ...

(ancient Anagyros, which is the base of his conventional name), but not in

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh List ...

itself. It is thus assumed that he was not active within the city and only produced for a very limited rural area. In contrast to many of his contemporaries, he did not paint '' lekanes'' but various large formats, such as

amphora An amphora (; grc, ἀμφορεύς, ''amphoreús''; English plural: amphorae or amphoras) is a type of container with a pointed bottom and characteristic shape and size which fit tightly (and therefore safely) against each other in storag ...

e, ''

kantharoi A ''kantharos'' ( grc, κάνθαρος) or cantharus is a type of ancient Greek cup used for drinking. Although almost all surviving examples are in Greek pottery, the shape, like many Greek vessel types, probably originates in metalwork. In i ...

'', chalices, '' oinochoai'' and plates.

Bibliography

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 ...

: ''Attic Black-figure Vase-painters'', Oxford 1956, p. 20-21. *John D. Beazley: ''Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters'', Oxford 1971, p. 13. * John Boardman: ''Schwarzfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Ein Handbuch'', von Zabern, Mainz 1977 (Kulturgeschichte der Antiken Welt, Vol 1) , p. 21. *Gisela Ahlberg-Cornell: ''The Anagyrus Painter. The kantharos in Athens NM 19174 and some stylistic problems in early Attic Black-Figure'', in: Archeologia Classica 33 (1981) p. 93-121. {{DEFAULTSORT:Anagyrus Painter Ancient Greek vase painters 6th-century BC Greek people Anonymous artists of antiquity Artists of ancient Attica