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The true name of the Theseus Painter and the circumstances of his life have not been preserved. He is conventionally called the Theseus Painter because of the frequency with which he and his followers depicted various episodes of the
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to the east, and the far coast of Italy and Sicily to the west. He was a prolific artist, and stood out among practitioners of the obsolescent black-figure style by virtue of his skilful and inventive work.
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style had largely displaced the black-figure style at the turn of the sixth century, his work nonetheless enjoyed a certain measure of popularity, being found as far afield as
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Stylistic evidence indicates that he was contemporaneous with and a "dominant influence" among the Sub-krokotos group, and was perhaps a student of
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The followers of the so-called Krokotos Painter, whose name is derived from the Greek
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c. 515 to 475 BCE. He was the leading producer of larger Heron Class
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skyphos
Metropolitan Museum of Art
black-figure style
Attica
skyphoi
Theseus
Pamphaios
Athena Painter
lekythoi
oinochoai
red-figure
Thasos
Cyrene
Rhodes




The Theseus Painter. Style, Shapes and Iconography
The Theseus Painter: Style, Shapes and Iconography
ISBN
978-90-71211-41-6
The Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens
ISBN
978-0-521-33881-3


Potter and Patron in Classical Athens
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