Edinburgh Painter

Edinburgh Painter
Possibly Aias Telamonios and Odysseus fighting over Achilles' weapons, painting by the Edinburgh Painter. White-ground Attic lekythos, ca. 500 BC, from Eretria.
Born	Unknown. Named from one of his vases in the Edinburgh Museum. Before 545 BC Probably Athens
Nationality	Athenian
Known for	Vase painting
Movement	Black-figure style

The Edinburgh Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active around 500 BC. His speciality was white-ground lekythoi painted in the black-figure techniques.

His real name is unknown. His conventional name is derived from his name vase in Edinburgh, National Museums of Scotland 1956.436.

Gallery

lekythos, Peleas, Achilles and Cheiron, Athens, National Museum 550]]
lekythos, Theseus and the bull, Athens, National Museum 1124
lekythos, Odysseus and a siren, Athens, National Museum 1130
name vase, Edinburgh, National Museums of Scotland MoS 1872.23.12

Bibliography

C. H. Emilie Haspels: Attic black-figured lekythoi, Paris 1936, p. 86-89. 215-221.
John Beazley: Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1956, p. 476-480.
John Boardman: Schwarzfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Ein Handbuch, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9, p. 159.
Thomas Mannack: Haspels addenda: additional references to C. H. E. Haspels Attic black-figured Lekythoi. Oxford 2006. ISBN 0-19-726315-1, p.

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Vases by the Edinburgh Painter in Perseus

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Wine vessel shapes	Dinos Kotyle Krater Kyathos Psykter Rhyton Skyphos

Tableware	Eye-cup Kantharos Kylix Oenochoe Olpe Patera Pinakion

Perfume, oil, and wedding shapes	Alabastron Aryballos Askos Lebes Gamikos Lekythos Loutrophoros Lydion Pyxis Stirrup jar

Funerary shapes and cultic shapes	Kernos Lekythos Loutrophoros Phiale

Storage shapes	Amphora Hydria Kalathos Kalpis Lebes Pelike Pithos Stamnos

Utilitarian ceramics	Chuta Epinetron Luchnos Situla

Techniques	Bilingual pottery Black-figure Bucchero Red-figure Six's technique Three-phase firing White-ground

Styles	Ancient Greek vase-painting styles

Potters and painters	List of Greek potters List of Greek vase painters List of Little Masters Name vase

Museums noted for pottery	Athens Basel und Ludwig Berlin Bodrum British Edinburgh Getty Heraklion Louvre Thera Ure Vatican Walters

Writers and books	Adolf Furtwängler Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Dietrich von Bothmer Edmond Pottier John Beazley John Boardman Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae

Special topics in Greek pottery	Frying pans Kalos inscription Nikosthenic amphora Panathenaic amphora Symposium Typology

Authority control	VIAF: 96162980 GND: 102564185X ULAN: 500069287

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