The Kassandra Painter (also Cassandra Painter) was an

Attic An attic (sometimes referred to as a '' loft'') is a space found directly below the pitched roof of a house or other building; an attic may also be called a ''sky parlor'' or a garret. Because attics fill the space between the ceiling of the ...

vase painter in the

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 ...

style. His known works date to between 570 and 565 BC, and he was associated with the

C Painter The C Painter was one of the most important Attica, Attic black-figure vase painting, black-figure vase painters. His works date to ''circa'' 575–550 BC. His conventional name was allocated by the archaeologist John Beazley. The C stands for "Cor ...

. The painter was identified by H.A.G. Bridjer. A contemporary of the

Heidelberg Painter The Heidelberg Painter (conventional name) was an Attic vase painter of the black-figure style, active between about 575 and 555 BC. He is considered one of the most important painters of Siana cups. Along with the C Painter, he is considered th ...

, he decorated Siana cups with tall feet and rims. The vessels painted by him are of medium size. He is considered one of the first producers of

Little-master cups Little-master cups are a type of Attic black-figure cups, produced around the middle and third quarter of the sixth century BC. Their name is based on their fine small-format decoration. Little-master cups are later in origin than Siana cups, bu ...

. His conventional name is derived from a depiction of Kassandra on one of his cups.

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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'', Thesis, Stuttgart 2002, . {{authority control Ancient Greek vase painters