Eucharides Painter

The Eucharides Painter was an Attic vase painter of the transitional period between the black - and red-figured style. His works are at the end of the 6th and the beginning of the 5th century BC.

The Eucharides - painter was a pupil of the painter Niko Xenos, rarely both painters are equated. He first worked in the black-figure style, but changed in the early 5th century BC as his mentor for new red-figured style. Several of his vases he produced bilingually. He is next to the Kleophrades painter as the last craftsman of the old style, the larger vases decorated with good quality. In the red-figure style he worked until well into the 470 's. Here he painted mainly newer vessel forms such as the Halsamphore, stamnoi and the column krater, which experienced a renaissance. His best pictures can be found at chalice craters. There he brings as his master, the figure scenes on both the lower, curved zone of the vase and on the even-numbered pages. His style is square and has abruptly. Particularly striking are the thick, round lobe of his characters. Around and after 500 BC the Eucharides Painter was the first red-figure vase painter of the style, the Panathenaic Preisamphoren, besides also pseudo - Panathenaic amphora painted. The Painter of Berlin 1833 mimicked him.