The Duel Painter was an ancient Corinthian vase painter in the
black-figure style
Black-figure pottery painting, also known as the black-figure style or black-figure ceramic ( grc, , }), is one of the styles of Ancient Greek vase painting, painting on pottery of ancient Greece, antique Greek vases. It was especially common bet ...
; his real name is unknown. He was active during the transitional period between
Orientalising vase painting and black-figure proper (). The Duel Painter preferred to decorate his ''
aryballoi
An aryballos (Greek: ἀρύβαλλος; plural aryballoi) was a small spherical or globular flask with a narrow neck used in Ancient Greece."aryballos" in ''The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1 ...
'' with fighting scenes, which is the basis for his conventional name. He was also one of the first Corinthian painters to depict birds.
''The Potters' Quarter''
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Bibliography
* Thomas Mannack
Thomas Mannack (born in 1958) is a German classical archaeologist.
Mannack obtained his Doctorate in 1992 with at the University of Kiel. The thema of his dissertation was ''Beazleys spätere und späteste Manieristen''. He is a specialist in t ...
: ''Griechische Vasenmalerei. Eine Einführung''. Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, p. 101 .
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Ancient Greek vase painters