The Columbus Painter was an ancient Corinthian vase painter in the

black-figure style Black-figure pottery painting (also known as black-figure style or black-figure ceramic; ) is one of the styles of Ancient Greek vase painting, painting on pottery of ancient Greece, antique Greek vases. It was especially common between the 7th a ...

; his real name is unknown. He was active during the transitional period between orientalising vase painting and black-figure proper (''c''. 640–625 BC). He was a pupil of the

Painter of Palermo 489 The Painter of Palermo 489 was an ancient Corinthian vase painter in the black-figure style; his real name is unknown. He was active during the transitional period between orientalising vase painting and black-figure proper (''ca''. 640–625 BC). ...

and, in turn, the teacher of the Chimaira Painter and thus a major influence on the Chimaira Group dominated by the latter. Characteristic are his powerful lions. He painted especially ''

aryballoi An aryballos (Greek: ἀρύβαλλος; plural aryballoi) was a small spherical or globular flask with a narrow neck used in Ancient Greece."aryballos" in '' The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn. ...

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Thomas Mannack Thomas Mannack (born in 1958) is a German classical archaeologist. Mannack obtained his doctorate in 1992 with at the University of Kiel. The thema of his dissertation was ''Beazleys spätere und späteste Manieristen''. The thesis was later p ...

: ''Griechische Vasenmalerei. Eine Einführung''. Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, p. 101 . {{Authority control Ancient Greek vase painters Ancient Corinthians 7th-century BC Greek people Anonymous artists of antiquity Year of birth unknown