Edinburgh Painter

Edinburgh Painter
Possibly Aias Telamonios and Odysseus fighting over Achilles' weapons, painting by the Edinburgh Painter. White-ground Attic lekythos, c. 500 BC, from Eretria.
Born	Unknown. Named from one of his vases in the Edinburgh Museum. Before 545 BC Probably Athens
Nationality	Athenian
Known for	Vase painting
Movement	Black-figure style

The Edinburgh Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active around 500 BC. His speciality was white-ground lekythoi painted in the black-figure style.

His real name is unknown. His conventional name is derived from his name vase in Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland 1956.436.

Gallery

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  Lekythos, Peleas, Achilles and Cheiron, Athens, National Museum 550

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  Lekythos, Theseus and the bull, Athens, National Museum 1124

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  Lekythos, Odysseus and a siren, Athens, National Museum 1130

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  Name vase, Edinburgh, National Museums of Scotland MoS 1872.23.12

Bibliography

• C. H. Emilie Haspels: Attic black-figured lekythoi, Paris 1936, p. 86-89. 215-221.
• John Beazley: Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1956, p. 476-480.
• John Boardman: Schwarzfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Ein Handbuch, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9, p. 159.
• Thomas Mannack: Haspels addenda: additional references to C. H. E. Haspels Attic black-figured Lekythoi. Oxford 2006. ISBN 0-19-726315-1, p.

External links

• Vases by the Edinburgh Painter in Perseus