Meleager Painter

The Meleager Painter is a painter of the Attic red-figure - style. He worked in the first third of the 4th century BC

The Meleager Painter in the tradition of some time earlier be resettled painters like the Mikion Painter. He is probably the most important vase painters of this generation. He painted a wide range of different vase forms, even shells, which was unusual at that time for vascular painter. He received his Notnamen of several vases on which he portrayed fighter groups, which included Atalante and her lover Meleager. Kolonetten and bell krater he decorated mostly with Dionysian themes. Like some other vase painter of the time he put like figures in oriental dress represents the Tondi the insides of his Kylixes he often summed up with wreaths one. Topics on this inner pictures are mostly groups of gods or individual gods. Shell outer sides and backs of other vases are usually of inferior quality.