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:
Achilles Painter Andokides Painter Apollodoros Berlin Painter Brygos Painter Bryn Mawr Painter Dokimasia Painter Douris Epiktetos Eucharides Painter Euphronios Euthymides Foundry Painter Harrow Painter Hermonax Kleophrades Painter Makron Nikoxenos Painter Onesimos Pan Painter Pheidippos Phintias Providence Painter Psiax Sabouroff Painter Siren Painter Skythes Smikros Tithonos Painter Triptolemos Painter
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
Amykos Painter Asteas Baltimore Painter Painter of the Berlin Dancing Girl Painter of the Boston Orestes Carnea Painter Cyclops Painter Darius Painter Ilioupersis Painter Lipari Painter Marsyas Painter Painter of Naples 2074 Pisticci Painter Policoro Painter Python Shuvalov Painter Sisyphus Painter Snub-nose Painter Tarporley Painter Underworld Painter Varrese Painter
See also Art in ancient Greece Black-figure pottery Geometric art Greek terracotta figurines Minoan pottery National Archaeological Museum of Athens Pottery of ancient Greece Red-figure pottery
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.
External links
The Perseus Project - List of Vase Painters Ancient Greek Pottery kerameikos.org, browse ancient artists