Priam Painter

The Priam Painter was an Attic vase painter of the black figure - period.

The Priam Painter is considered to be one of the better and also more productive than pretty vase painter of the black-figure style in Athens at the end of the 6th century BC Some researchers estimate it qualitatively so high that they connections between the Priam Painter and the Antimenes painter or Leagros group to see. His choice of topics is rather modest, but he gives his subjects in detail, with lots of imagination and original composition skill again. Especially frequently he shows chariot race with Athena and Herakles as well as scenes of public fountains worldwide. These images are evidence of a certain sympathy for the ruling Peisistratids. He is so myths again that particularly appreciated the Peisistratids and used to legitimize; with the well houses he shows one of their services that they provided to Athens. The vases must therefore have been painted shortly before the expulsion of the Peisistratids from Athens in 510 BC. Stylistically, stands near the Priam Painter Of Rycroft Painter.