List of Greek vase painters

Interior of the Dionysus cup, by Exekias

The following is a list of ancient Greek vase painters who have been identified either by name or by style. Because of the research of academics like John Davidson Beazley, Arthur Dale Trendall, Robert Manuel Cook, Darrell A. Amyx and Conrad Stibbe more than 2800 individual painters are known.

Geometric period

Anavysos Painter
Painter of Athens 877
Painter of Athens 894
Birdseed Painter
Burly Painter
Cesnola Painter
Dipylon Master
Empedocles Painter
Hirschfeld Painter
Philadelphia Painter
Stathatou Painter
Vulture Painter

Orientalizing period

Aigina Bellerophon Painter
Altenburg Painter
Analatos Painter
Chigi Painter
Head-in-Air Painter
Honolulu Painter
Hound Painter
Mesogeia Painter
Passas Painter
Polyphemos Painter
Ram Jug Painter

Black-figure period

Individual painters include:

Acheloos Painter
Achradina Painter
Painter of Acropolis 606
Affecter
Painter of Agora P 1241
Allard-Pierson Painter
Amasis Painter
Ampersand Painter
Anagyrus Painter
Anakles
Ano Achaïia Painter
Andokides Painter
Antimenes Painter
Arkesilas Painter
Athena Painter
Beldam Painter
Bellerophon Painter
Painter of Berlin A 34
Painter of Berlin F 1090
Painter of Berlin 1686
BMN Painter
Boreads Painter
Bucci Painter
C Painter
Cavalcade Painter
Castellani Painter
Centaur Painter
Centauren Painter
Cerameicus Painter
Chimaira Painter
Chimera Painter
Chiusi Painter
Columbus Painter
Daybreak Painter
Diosphos Painter
Dodwell Painter
Dorow Painter
Duel Painter
Eagle Painter
Edinburgh Painter
Elbows Out
Ergoteles
Eucharides Painter
Euphiletos Painter
Exekias
Feoli Painter
Geledakis Painter
Gela Painter
Goltyr Painter
Gorgon Painter
Griffin-Bird Painter
Guglielmi Painter
Haimon Painter
Heidelberg Painter
Hippolytos Painter
Horse-bird Painter
Hunt Painter
Kabeiros Painter
Karithaios Painter
Kassandra Painter
Kleitias
KX Painter
KY Painter
Lion Painter
Lydos
Lysippides Painter
Madrid Painter
Mastos Painter
Memnon Painter
Micali Painter
Michigan Painter
Painter of Munich 237
Painter of Munich 1410
Mystai Painter
N Painter
Naucratis Painter
Neandros Painter
Nearchos
Nessos Painter
Painter of Nicosia Olpe
Nikosthenes
Nikoxenos Painter
Oakeshott Painter
Oltos
Ophelandros Painter
Otterlo Painter
Painter of Palermo 489
Painter of the Palermo Gorgoneion
Panther Painter
Paseas
Pasikles Painter
Phineus Painter
Pholoe Painter
Phrynos Painter
Piraeus Painter
Polos Painter
Priam Painter
Princeton Painter
Prometheus Painter
Psiax
Ptoon Painter
Red-Black Painter
Red-Line Painter
Painter of Rhodes 13472
Ribbon Painter
Rider Painter
Rycroft Painter
Sakonides
Sappho Painter
Silenus Painter
Sokles Painter
Sophilos
Sphinx Painter
Swing Painter
Taleides Painter
Taranto Painter
Taras Painter
Painter of Tarquinia RC 6847
Teisias the Athenian
Theseus Painter
Three Sirens Painter
Timiades Painter
Tityos Painter
Tleson Painter
Tokra Painter
Tydeus Painter
Typhon Painter
Painter of Vatican G 62
Painter of Vatican 73
Painter of the Vatican Mourner
Xenokles Painter
Zürich Painter

Groups and classes of painters include:

Boeotian Dancer Group
Burgon Group
Class of Cabinet des Médailles 218
Chimaira Group
Comast Group
Group E
Gorgoneion Group
Hypobibazon Class
Kabiria Group
Leagros Group
Little Masters
- Charon Group
- Golvol Group
- Group of Louvre F 81
- Group of Rhodes 12264
- Group of Toronto 289
- Group of Vatican G 61
- Group of Villa Giulia 3559
Northampton Group
Oxford Palmette Class
Perizoma Group
Pontic Group
Ragusa Group
Three Line Group

Red-figure period

Archaic period

Individual painters include:

Groups and classes of painters include:

Pioneer Group

Classical period

Individual painters include:

Academy Painter
Achilles Painter
Agrigento Painter
Aison
Altamura Painter
Antiphon Painter
Aristophanes
Painter of Athens 1183
Painter of the Athens Argos Cup
Painter of Berlin Hydria
Bird Painter
Blenheim Painter
Bowdoin Painter
Briseis Painter
Chrysis Painter
Clio Painter
Codrus Painter
Dinos Painter
Dwarf Painter
Eretria Painter
Geneva Painter
Painter of the Great Athens Kantharos
Hasselmann Painter
Hephaistos Painter
Jena Painter
Painter of the Judgement of Paris
Kleophon Painter
Leningrad Painter
Loeb Painter
Painter of London
Painter of London D 12
Lyandros Painter
Lykaon Painter
Marlay Painter
Meidias Painter
Meleager Painter
Painter of Munich 2335
Myson
Nausikaa Painter
Niobid Painter
Oreithyia painter
Pan Painter
Penthesilea Painter
Persephone Painter
Phiale Painter
Pig Painter
Pistoxenos Painter
Polygnotos
Providence Painter
Reed Painter
Sabouroff Painter
Tarquinia Painter
Telos Painter
Thanatos Painter
Timokrates Painter
Triglyph Painter
Tymbos Painter
Tyszkiewicz Painter
Villa Giulia Painter
Washing Painter
Wedding Painter
Westreenen Painter

Groups and classes of painters include:

Kerch style
Mannerists
- Nausikaa-Hephaistos Group
YZ Group

South Italian and Sicilian red-figure vase painters

Sources

Paolo Enrico Arias, Max Hirmer, and B. B. Shefton. A History of Greek Vase Painting. London: Thames and Hudson Publishing, 1962.
Robert Manuel Cook. Greek Painted Pottery. London: Methuen Publishing, 1972.
Tom Rasmussen and Nigel Jonathan Spivey. Looking at Greek Vases. Cambridge [England], New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

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Geometric period

Orientalizing period

Black-figure period

Red-figure period

Archaic period

Classical period

South Italian and Sicilian red-figure vase painters

See also

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