Tydeus Painter

The Tydeus Painter was designated with a Notnamen ancient Greek vase painter who decorated his works in the Corinthian black-figure - style. He worked during the spätkorinthischen phase of the style ( approximately 575-550 BC), his works are about the year 560 BC.

The Tydeus Painter was one of the most important and the last important vase painters of the late phase of the black-figure style in Corinth. He painted mainly amphorae, craters, and Lekythe oinochoai. The most important works of the painter can be found on red-ground neck amphorae, including a picture with the killing of naked Ismene on the Namenvase. On a second amphora in Paris, he showed the battle between Theseus and the Minotaur. Otherwise, he shows no representations from the mythology, he prefers fight representations riders and Komasten, along with animals and mythical creatures. Characteristic of his work are the use of a wide Deckrot and opaque white and the numerous Namensbeischriften. The demarcation of stylistically related painters is still not completely successful.