Little Masters (Greek vase painting)

The Little masters were a group of potters and vase painters who produced vases of the Attic black-figure style featuring well-done figures in miniature. They were active in Athens approximately 560–530 BC. They mainly produced Little-master cups: lip cups, band cups, and droop cups, but were not entirely limited to such shapes. The group includes:

Potters

Anakles Antidoros Archeneides Archikles Charitaios Chiron Epitimos Ergoteles Eucheiros Gageos Glaukytes Hermogenes Hischylos Kaulos Kolchos Kritomenes Myspios Neandros Phrynos Priapos Sokles Sondros Taleides Teisias Telesias Thrax Thypheitides Tlempolemos Tleson Xenokles Botkin Class

Vase painters

Painter of Agora P 1241 Ano Achaïia Painter Karithaios Painter Centauren Painter Neandros Painter Oakeshott Painter Painter of the Palermo Gorgoneion Phrynos Painter Sakonides Sokles Painter Taleides Painter Tleson Painter Painter of Vatican G 62 Xenokles Painter

Groups

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

Notes

Further reading John Beazley: Little-master Cups, in: Journal of Hellenic Studies 52 (1932) pp. 167–204. John Beazley: Attic Black-figure Vase-Painting, Oxford 1956, pp. 159–197. Dieter Metzler: Eine attische Kleinmeisterschale mit Töpferszenen in Karlsruhe, in: Archäologischer Anzeiger (1969) pp. 138–152. John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters, Oxford 1971, pp. 67–80. Joan Tarlow Haldenstein: Little master cups. Studies in 6th century Attic black-figure vase painting, Dissertation University of Cincinnati 1975. Rudolf Wachter: Drinking inscriptions on Attic little-master cups. A catalogue (AVI 3), in: Kadmos 42 (2003) pp. 141–189. Peter Heesen: Drinking inscriptions on Attic little-master cups. Does size matter? A contribution to the AVI Project, in: Museum Helveticum 63 (2006) pp. 44–62.