Anonymous and conventionally named painters of the decorated pottery of ancient Athens and Attica, who worked in the black-figure and red-figure techniques between the sixth and fourth centuries BCE. Scholars name them for a vase, a potter or a subject because the artists seldom signed their work. Their scenes of myth, ritual and daily life are among the main surviving evidence for Greek painting. Painters such as the Berlin Painter, the Persephone Painter and the Taleides Painter are known today only through the pots they decorated, which were made for wine mixing, pouring and drinking at the symposium and for offerings at the grave.
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Berlin Painter (Wikipedia)
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The Berlin Painter (active c. 490-460s BC) is the conventional name given to an Attic Greek vase painter who is widely regarded as among the most talented of his time.
Persephone Painter (Wikipedia)
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The Persephone Painter, working from about 475 to 425 BCE, is the pseudonym of an ancient Attic Greek vase painter, named by Sir John Beazley after investigating a red-figure bell-krater vase of about 440 BC, which includes a mythological scene of the return of Persephone from Hades.
Taleides Painter (Wikipedia)
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The Taleides Painter was an Attic 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.
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