Shuvalov Painter

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Kantharos, Paris, Louvre CA 1587: Eros and musician playing the lyra, circa 420/10 BC.

The Shuvalov Painter was an Attic vase painter of the red-figure style, active between 440 and 410 BC, i.e. in the High Classical period (Parthenon period) in Magna Graecia.

Oinochoe, erotic scene with young man and hetaira; Antikensammlung
(F 2414) Berlin

The Shuvalov painter's

Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov
.

Most of some eighty works ascribed to the Shuvalov Painter were discovered in Italy, mainly in

John Boardman
argues that his paintings have a tendency to be somewhat shallow and facile.

An

oinochoe by the Shuvalov Painter on display in Berlin is one of the most famous erotic works of ancient Greek vase painting
.

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