The Taleides Painter was an

Attic An attic (sometimes referred to as a '' loft'') is a space found directly below the pitched roof of a house or other building. It is also known as a ''sky parlor'' or a garret. Because they fill the space between the ceiling of a building's t ...

vase painter of the black-figure style, active in the second half of the 6th century BC. His conventional name is derived from his close cooperation with the potter Taleides, many of whose vases he painted. He also worked for the potter Timagoras.

Works (selection)

*Athens, Akropolis Museum :fragment of a ''loutrophoros'' *Athens, National Museum :''

lekythos 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 ...

'' 414 *Berlin, Antikensammlung :Little-master cup F 1721 • ''

psykter A (, 'cooler') is a type of Pottery of ancient Greece, Greek vase that is characterized by a bulbous body set on a high, narrow foot. It was used as a wine cooler, and specifically as part of the elite sympotic set in the ancient Greek symposiu ...

''-''oinochoe'' 31131 *Borden Wood, Collection Mrs. Winifred Lamb :''lekythos'' *Boston, Museum of Fine Arts :''oinochoe'' 10.210 •

amphora An amphora (; ; English ) is a type of container with a pointed bottom and characteristic shape and size which fit tightly (and therefore safely) against each other in storage rooms and packages, tied together with rope and delivered by land ...

63.952 • ''

hydria The hydria (; : hydriai) is a form of Greek pottery from between the Geometric art, late Geometric period (7th century BC) and the Hellenistic period (3rd century BC). The etymology of the word hydria was first noted when it was stamped on a ...

'' 68.105 • ''hydria'' 99.522 *Brunswick, Bowdoin College :fragment 2 *Eleusis, Archaeological Museum :''lekythos'' 961 *Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe :amphora 1917.474 *Limenas, Museum :cup fragment *Madrid, Museo Arqueológico Nacional :''oinochoe'' 10932 (L 55) *Malibu, The J. Paul Getty Museum :''lekythos'' 76.AE.48 *Munich, Antikensammlung :''lekythos'' *Oxford, Ashmolean Museum :fragment of a ''lekythos'' G 571 *Paris, Musée National du Louvre :''hydria'' Cp10655 • ‚''hydria'' F 38 • ‚''hydria'' F 39 • ''Oinochoe'' F 340 • ''oinochoe'' F 341 *Rome, Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia :amphora 15538 • ''Lekythos'' M 556 *St. Petersburg, Hermitage :''hydria'' 4467 *Sydney, University, Nicholson Museum : fragment of a ''lekythos'' 48.284 (former Borden Wood, Collection Mrs. Winifred Lamb) *Syracuse, Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi :fragment of a

Little-master cup Little-Master cups are a type of Attica, Attic Black-figure pottery, black-figure cups, produced around the middle and third quarter of the sixth century BC. Their name is based on their fine small-format decoration. Little-Master cups are later ...

7354 • ''lekythos'' 8276 *Taranto, Museo Archeologico Nazionale :''lekythos'' 117183 *Vatican, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco :Little-master cup Albizatti 321 :Little-master cup 39546 (formerly Guglielmi collection)

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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 U ...

: ''Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters'', Oxford 1956, p. 174-176. *John Beazley: ''Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters'', Oxford 1971, p. 72-74. *Peter Heesen: ''Taleides'', in: Künstlerlexikon der Antike Vol. 2, 2004, p. 431-432. {{Authority control Ancient Greek vase painters