Kleitias (
Greek
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: Κλειτίας, sometimes rendered as Klitias) was an ancient
Athenian
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vase painter of 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 who flourished c. 570–560 BCE. Kleitias' most celebrated work today is the
François Vase (c. 570 BCE), which bears over two hundred figures in its six friezes. Painted inscriptions on four pots and one ceramic stand name Kleitias as their painter and
Ergotimos
Ergotimos (Έργότιμος) was a Greek potter, active in Athens, ''circa'' 570–560 BC. His son Eucharios was also a potter, as was a grandson whose name is not known.
The following works signed by him are known:
* Berlin, Antikensammlung ...
as their potter, showing the craftsmen's close collaboration. A variety of other fragments have been attributed to him on a stylistic basis.
[See the essential list in J. D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford 1956) 77-79. Examples found or attributed later include particularly D. von Bothmer, "A New Kleitias Fragment from Egypt", in: ''Antike Kunst'' 24, 1981, 66-67.]
Signed works
* Berlin, Antikensammlung V. I. 4604:
Gordion cup from
Gordion
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* Florence, Museo Archeologico 4209 ("
François vase" also known as "Klitias krater"): Volute krater
* London, British Museum 1948.8-15.1 u. 2; 88.6-1.215, 424, 427 + Cambridge N 206: Fragments of a cup from
Naukratis
* London, British Museum 88.6-1.237, 324, 426; 1948.8-15.3 u. 4: Fragments of a cup from Naukratis
*New York, Metropolitan Museum 31.11.4: Stand from
Vari
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Bibliography
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John Beazley
Sir John Davidson Beazley, (; 13 September 1885 – 6 May 1970) was a British classical archaeologist and art historian, known for his classification of Attic vases by artistic style. He was Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the Un ...
: ''Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters'', Oxford 1956, p. 76-78.
* Bettina Kreuzer: ''Klitias'', in: Künstlerlexikon der Antike Vol 1, 2001, p. 419-420.
See also
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Painter of Acropolis 606
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Black-figure vase painting
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 ...
External links
Klitias in the Beazley-Archive
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