Meleager Painter
The Meleager Painter was an
kylikes
, a rarity among his contemporaries.
National Archaeological Museum
His conventional name is derived from several vases depicting hunters, including
Dionysiac motifs. Like other painters of his time, he liked to paint figures wearing oriental garb. The tondos
inside his kylikes are often framed by wreaths. They mostly depict groups of deities or individual gods. The outsides of kylikes and the paintings on the backs of other vases by him are often of inferior quality.
Bibliography
- John D. Beazley. Attic Red Figure Vase Painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.
- ISBN 3-8053-1262-8.
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