Edinburgh Painter

The Edinburgh Painter (also Edinburgh painter) was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active around 500 BC in Athens.

His specialty was white Lekythoi, which he painted blackfigure. He was the first important vase painters who decorated large Zylinderlekythen. Stylistically, it is a successor of Leagros group. Besides lekythoi he also decorated small neck amphorae and Lekanendeckel, but apart from one or two assigned pieces no larger forms as it should be the hallmark of the Leagros group later. Early in his career, he reduced the number of typical shoulder palmettes on the lekythoi from seven to five. This makes it easy to identify. A more important innovation was the introduction of a white, thick base on the vase body. He replaced the usual red clay ground. He is the developer of the very own Attic white-ground style. This was now mandatory for all discerning painter of white-ground style. Even less gifted painters have applied this technique. Other vase forms, such oinochoai or small neck amphorae were now sometimes decorated in this manner. The white representation of details such as women's skin is no longer needed, such consignments as the other details are now executed in black. He also took over for his work in clay- vessels. The work of the Edinburgh painter characterized by clear and simple structures and looseness. Typical are the large, round and quite expressionless eyes. Sometimes he succeeds still fine, detailed drawings, but he heard a late generation blackfigure working artists, one of which special skill is no longer to be expected. His mythological pictures and genre scenes are characterized by a great variety. Here are just a few painters of his immediate temporal environment, such as the Gela Painter, Theseus Painter and the Athena Painter him came close. His Notnamen received the Edinburgh painter after the lekythos in the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh. Part of his vases is part of the point -band class.