Theseus Painter

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An Attic black-figure skyphos attributed to the Theseus Painter, c. 500 BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Theseus Painter was a decorator of vases in the

skyphoi.[2]
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Life and work

The true name of the Theseus Painter and the circumstances of his life have not been preserved. He is conventionally called the Theseus Painter because of the frequency with which he and his followers depicted various episodes of the Theseid, the peregrinations of Theseus.[3]: 84 

Stylistic evidence indicates that he was contemporaneous with and a "dominant influence" among the Sub-krokotos group,

oinochoai in the black-figure style.[1]
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Although the more fashionable

red-figure style had largely displaced the black-figure style at the turn of the sixth century, his work nonetheless enjoyed a certain measure of popularity, being found as far afield as Thasos to the north, Cyrene to the south, Rhodes to the east, and the far coast of Italy and Sicily to the west. He was a prolific artist, and stood out among practitioners of the obsolescent black-figure style by virtue of his skilful and inventive work.[1]
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Notes

  1. ^ The followers of the so-called Krokotos Painter, whose name is derived from the Greek κροκωτός (krokōtos) (saffron-yellow dress robe). The female figures in his work often wear krokōtoi.[1]: 5 

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