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The Dionysus Cup is the modern name for one of the best known works of ancient Greek vase painting, a kylix (drinking cup) dating to 540–530 BC. It is one of the masterpieces of the Attic black-figure potter Exekias and one of the most significant works in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen in Munich .
Dionysos with maenads and satyrs. Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 2344 The Kleophrades Painter is the name given to the anonymous red-figure Athenian vase painter, who was active from approximately 510–470 BC and whose work, considered amongst the finest of the red-figure style, is identified by its stylistic traits.
Aktaion with other mythological heroes as hunters (Tydeus, Theseus, Kastor).Side A of an Attic red-figure bell-krater. New York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Dinos Painter was an Attic red-figure vase painter who was active during the second half of the 5th century BC.
The vase is symmetric all the way around the neck and top of the shoulder. The only discrepancy is that the handle is located right between side A and B. The vase changes from a symmetrical vase with nothing but patterns to a scene of Eos and Kephalos underneath the shoulder. On side A, Eos can be seen reaching out toward Kephalos.
Exekias (Ancient Greek: Ἐξηκίας, Exēkías) was an ancient Greek vase painter and potter who was active in Athens between roughly 545 BC and 530 BC. [1] Exekias worked mainly in the black-figure technique, which involved the painting of scenes using a clay slip that fired to black, with details created through incision.
The Diosphos Painter was an Athenian Attic black-figure vase painter thought to have been active from 500–475 BCE, many of whose surviving works are on lekythoi. The Diosphos Painter was a pupil of the Edinburgh Painter, who also trained the Sappho Painter. He was first identified by C.H.E. Haspels in her Attic Black-figure Lekythoi (Paris ...
Reverse: Youthful Dionysus with two dancing maenads and three satyrs watching from a higher level. Its catalogue listing reads, Bell crater, British Museum B.M. number 1890,0210.1, from St. Agata dei Goti. RVP no 2/239 plate 88. A neck amphora decorated with the birth of Helen from Leda's egg that bears Python's signature in the altar base.
Dionysus and consort, possibly Ariadne, on an amphora by the Mastos Painter. The Mastos Painter (fl. mid-6th century BC) was a painter of ancient Greek vases.He is named for a black-figure mastos used by the art historian John Boardman to illustrate the type, which is shaped like a woman's breast (Greek mastos).