Athena Painter

The Athena Painter was a black-figure Attic vase painter, active around 490-460 BCE in Athens. His specialty was white Lekythoi, which he painted blackfigure.

The Athena Painter led as well as the Theseus Painter painting the large Standardlekythen in the tradition of the Edinburgh Painter continued. He led added several small changes that should be canonically according to him, tendrils with closed buds on the shoulder palmette or some of his vessels he uncovered the vessel necks black. The vertical stripes on the shoulder, former, now degenerated tongue pattern, he sided with edging lines and ornate addition to the baseline. His black- work was of high quality. Besides lekythoi he decorated especially oinochoai. Most of the archaeologists of the Athena Painter is equated with the red-figure Bowdoin Painter. In his best work, his figures have the dignity that distinguished the figures of the Leagros group. Most, however, he rather just painted. His characters are vivid, but often have little " egg heads ". He received his Notnamen because of his fondness for images with Athena representations. His topics repertoire is characterized by variety and richness.