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Euthymides was an ancient

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potter and painter of

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s, primarily active between 515 and 500 BC. He was a member of the

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art movement later to be known as the

Pioneer Group The Pioneer Group is a term used by scholars for a number of vase painters working in potters' quarter of Kerameikos in ancient Athens around the beginning of the 5th century BC, around the time of the emergence of red-figure vase painting, which s ...

for their exploration of the new decorative style known as

red-figure pottery 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 ...

. Euthymides was the teacher of another Athenian red-figure vase painter, the

Kleophrades Painter The Kleophrades Painter is the name given to the anonymous red-figure Athenian vase painter, who was active from approximately 510–470 BC and whose work, considered amongst the finest of the red-figure style, is identified by its stylistic trai ...

. Euthymides was admired for his portrayal of human movement and studies of perspective, his painted figures being amongst the first to show foreshortened limbs. He was more

minimalist In visual arts, music and other media, minimalism is an art movement that began in post– World War II in Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with minimalism include Do ...

than others in the movement, and his tendency was to draw relatively few figures, and only rarely overlap them. His works were normally inscribed "Euthymides painted me". Euthymides was a rival of his fellow Athenian Euphronios, and one of his

amphora An amphora (; grc, ἀμφορεύς, ''amphoreús''; English plural: amphorae or amphoras) is a type of container with a pointed bottom and characteristic shape and size which fit tightly (and therefore safely) against each other in storag ...

e is additionally marked with the playful taunt ''"hos oudepote Euphronios"'', words which have been variously interpreted as "as never Euphronios ould do, or "this wasn't one of Euphronios". Only eight vessels signed by Euthymides survive, six signed as painter, and two as potter. His most famous work is probably '' The Revelers Vase'', an amphora depicting three men partying. They are presumably drunk; one of them is holding a ''

kantharos A ''kantharos'' ( grc, κάνθαρος) or cantharus is a type of ancient Greek cup used for drinking. Although almost all surviving examples are in Greek pottery, the shape, like many Greek vessel types, probably originates in metalwork. In i ...

'', a large drinking vessel. An unsigned two-handled amphora (Boston 63.1515) is attributed to the "circle of Euthymides".

References

Further Reading: * (see index) External Links:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide
a collection catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art containing information on Euthymides (page 321)

Euthymides' vase in the Louvre collection
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