The Diosphos Painter was an Athenian Attic
black-figure
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 ...
vase painter thought to have been active from 500–475 BCE, many of whose surviving works are on
lekythoi
A lekythos (; : lekythoi) is a type of ancient Greek vessel used for storing oil, especially olive oil. It has a narrow body and one handle attached to the neck of the vessel, and is thus a narrow type of jug, with no pouring lip; the oinochoe is ...
.
The Diosphos Painter was a pupil of the
Edinburgh Painter, who also trained the
Sappho Painter. He was first identified by
C.H.E. Haspels in her ''Attic Black-figure Lekythoi'' (Paris, 1936).
See also
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List of Greek vase painters
The following is a list of ancient Greek vase painters who have been identified either by name or by style. Because of the research of academics like John Davidson Beazley, Arthur Dale Trendall, Robert Manuel Cook, Darrell A. Amyx and Conrad ...
External links
Works by the Diosphos Painterat the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Ancient Greek vase painters
Archaic Greek art
Ancient Athenians