The Diosphos Painter was an Athenian Attic
black-figure
Black-figure pottery painting, also known as the black-figure style or black-figure ceramic ( grc, , }), is one of the styles of painting on antique Greek vases. It was especially common between the 7th and 5th centuries BCE, although there are ...
vase painter thought to have been active from 500–475 BCE, many of whose surviving works are on
lekythoi
A lekythos (plural lekythoi) is a type of ancient Greek vessel used for storing oil (Greek λήκυθος), especially olive oil. It has a narrow body and one handle attached to the neck of the vessel, and is thus a narrow type of jug, with no po ...
.
The Diosphos Painter was a pupil of the
Edinburgh Painter, who also trained the
Sappho Painter
Sappho Painter was an Attica, Attic black-figure vase painter, active .
His name vase is a ''Kalpis (pottery), kalpis'' depicting the poet Sappho, currently held by the National Museum, Warsaw (Inv. 142333). The hand of the Sappho Painter has be ...
. He was first identified by
C.H.E. Haspels in her ''Attic Black-figure Lekythoi'' (Paris, 1936).
See also
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List of Greek vase painters
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Organizations
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External links
Works by the Diosphos Painterat the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Ancient Greek vase painters
Archaic Greek art