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The Chiusi Painter was an
The Chiusi Painter was an Attic
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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 the last quarter of the sixth century BC. His real name is not known.
The Chiusi Painter was part of the so-called Leagros Group
The Leagros Group was a group of Attic black-figure vase painters active during the last two decades of the 6th century BC. The name given to the group by modern scholars is a conventional one, derived from a series of name vases.
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, the last major important group of painters in the black-figure style. He is characterised by what John Boardman calls a "boring delicateness" John Boardman: ''Schwarzfigurige Vasen aus Athen'', p. 121 compared to other artists of the group, failing to reach the standards of the Acheloos Painter
The Acheloos Painter, active around 525–500 BCE in Athens, was a vase painter of the black-figure style. His scenes were like those of the Leagros Group; however, unlike their work, his themes are comic episodes, like modern cartoons. Herakles w ...
for example.
See also
*List of Greek vase painters
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Bibliography
* John Boardman: ''Schwarzfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Ein Handbuch'', Mainz 1977, , p. 121References