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The Meleager Painter was an 
His conventional name is derived from several vases depicting hunters, including Atalante and her lover Meleagros. Colonette ''kraters'' and bell ''kraters'' by him normally bear Dionysiac motifs. Like other painters of his time, he liked to paint figures wearing oriental garb. The '' tondos'' inside his ''kylikes'' are often framed by wreaths. They mostly depict groups of deities or individual gods. The outsides of ''kylikes'' and the paintings on the backs of other vases by him are often of inferior quality.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Meleager Painter 4th-century BC deaths Ancient Greek vase painters Anonymous artists of antiquity People from Attica Year of birth unknown
The Meleager Painter was an ancient Greek
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vase painter of the Attic
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red-figure
Red-figure pottery () is a style of Pottery of ancient Greece, ancient Greek pottery in which the background of the pottery is painted black while the figures and details are left in the natural red or orange color of the clay.
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style. He was active in the first third of the 4th century BC. The Meleager Painter followed a tradition started by a group of slightly earlier artists, such as the Mikion Painter. He is probably the most important painter of his generation. He painted a wide variety of vase shapes, including even '' kylikes'', a rarity among his contemporaries.
His conventional name is derived from several vases depicting hunters, including Atalante and her lover Meleagros. Colonette ''kraters'' and bell ''kraters'' by him normally bear Dionysiac motifs. Like other painters of his time, he liked to paint figures wearing oriental garb. The '' tondos'' inside his ''kylikes'' are often framed by wreaths. They mostly depict groups of deities or individual gods. The outsides of ''kylikes'' and the paintings on the backs of other vases by him are often of inferior quality.
Bibliography
* John D. Beazley. ''Attic Red Figure Vase Painters''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. * John Boardman. ''Rotfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Die klassische Zeit'', Philipp von Zabern, Mainz, 1991 (Kulturgeschichte der Antiken Welt, Band 48), besonders, p. 176 .External links
Works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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