Brygos was an
ancient Greek potter, active in
Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...
between 490 and 470 BC. He is known as a producer of excellent drinking cups. About 200 of his pieces are known. The workshop of Brygos employed a
red-figure
Red-figure vase painting is one of the most important styles of figural Greek vase painting.
It developed in Athens around 520 BCE and remained in use until the late 3rd century BCE. It replaced the previously dominant style of black-figure va ...
vase painter who is conventionally called the
Brygos Painter
The Brygos Painter was an Ancient Greece, ancient Greek Attica, Attic Red-figure pottery, red-figure vase painter of the Late Archaic Greece, Archaic period. Together with Onesimos (vase painter), Onesimos, Douris (vase painter), Douris and Makro ...
. The Brygos Painter is one of the most famous vase painters of his time. His work is characterised by its high quality and realistic depictions. The workshop of Brygos also employed the
Briseis Painter, among others.
See also
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Pottery of ancient Greece
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Art in ancient Greece
Ancient Greek art stands out among that of other ancient cultures for its development of naturalistic but idealized depictions of the human body, in which largely nude male figures were generally the focus of innovation. The rate of stylistic d ...
Bibliography
*Ingeborg Scheibler. ''Griechische Töpferkunst'', C. H. Beck.
External links
Getty Museum - Brygos Potter
Ancient Greek potters
Anonymous artists of antiquity
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