Brygos

Brygos was a Greek potters and approximately 490-470 active BC in Athens.

Brygos was known as a premier bowl pottery, and there are over 200 pottery, mainly bowls, received from him.

In the pottery workshop of Brygos worked a well-known vase painter, which is called after the workshop as Brygos painter. It belongs to the group of the most important Attic vase painter of the red-figure style. From the Brygos painters were mainly represented the following scenes: Mythology, symposia, obscene images with strong realism.

Famous Works:

• Iliupersis shell (Paris, Louvre)
• Maenad with snake, predator and ivy as an internal image of a white-ground drinking cup (Munich, Collection of Antiquities )