Diosphos Painter

Lekythos of Achilles and Ajax playing a board game by the Diosphos Painter, c. 500 BC, Louvre

The Diosphos Painter was an Athenian Attic black-figure vase painter[1] thought to have been active from 500–475 BCE, many of whose surviving works are on lekythoi.[2]

The Diosphos Painter worked beside the Sappho Painter[3][4] and both were pupils of the Edinburgh Painter. He was first identified by C.H.E. Haspels in her Attic Black-figure Lekythoi (Paris, 1936).

References

  1. ↑ Wissenschaften, Bayerische Akademie der (2009). Hermeneutik der Bilder: Beiträge zur Ikonographie und Interpretation griechischer Vasenmalerei. C.H.Beck. p. 140. ISBN 978-3-406-59321-5. Retrieved 11 August 2026.
  2. ↑ "Collections Online | British Museum". www.britishmuseum.org. Retrieved 11 August 2026.
  3. ↑ Haspels, Caroline Henriette Emilie (1936). Attic Black-figured Lekythoi. p. 94. Retrieved 11 August 2026.
  4. ↑ Robertson, Martin (1992). The Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens. Cambridge University Press. p. 130. ISBN 978-0-521-33881-3. Retrieved 11 August 2026.

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