Edinburgh Painter
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Edinburgh Painter | |
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![]() Possibly Aias Telamonios and Odysseus fighting over Achilles' weapons, painting by the Edinburgh Painter. White-ground Attic lekythos, c. 500 BC, from Eretria. | |
Born | Unknown. Named from one of his vases in the Edinburgh Museum. Before 545 BC Probably Athens |
Nationality | Athenian |
Known for | Vase painting |
Movement | Black-figure style |
The Edinburgh Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active around 500 BC. His speciality was white-ground lekythoi painted in the black-figure style.
His real name is unknown. His conventional name is derived from his name vase in Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland 1956.436.
Gallery
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Lekythos, Theseus and the bull, Athens, National Museum 1124
Bibliography
[edit]- C. H. Emilie Haspels: Attic black-figured lekythoi, Paris 1936, p. 86-89. 215-221.
- John Beazley: Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1956, p. 476-480.
- John Boardman: Schwarzfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Ein Handbuch, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9, p. 159.
- Thomas Mannack: Haspels addenda: additional references to C. H. E. Haspels Attic black-figured Lekythoi. Oxford 2006. ISBN 0-19-726315-1, p.
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