Phiale Painter

The Phiale - painter is a painter of the Attic red-figure - style. He looked about in a period 460-430 BC

The Phiale painter is considered as disciple of the Achilles Painter. Unlike his teacher, he likes to show stories in his paintings. He painted several large calyx krater in two levels of representation. In general, he seems different than to have his master more preferred in the vessels. This is also evident in his few known white-ground works, however, were more expressive than that of the Achilles Painter. Besides a few lekythoi he painted two chalice krater in white-ground technique, which rarely occurred in this vase shape. He takes His subjects may the theater of his time, his favorite Kalos name is definitely the son of Aeschylus Euaion. He got from a painted of him Phiale His Notnamen, a vase shape, which was rarely painted figural.