Polos Painter

The Polos Painter was an Attic vase painter of the black-figure style -. His works are dated to the period around 575 to 565 BC.

The Polos Painter applies as a painter with a strong hand, but does not rise over the artistic mediocrity. He reminded stylistically to the earlier to be applied in, based on the Corinthian vase painting, Ragusa group. He was particularly productive. Much of his vases he decorated with " degenerate animal friezes " ( John Boardman ). He received his Notnamen from those set forth in crosshatch Polos- crowns with which he decorated the he painted women, animals and sirens. Today, more than 100 vases and fragments are assigned to it. His works were in the Greek world, especially in apparently less demanding buyers, widely used: Athens and Attica over Lower Italy, Spain, Cyrenaica, Egypt and Asia Minor. He decorated all then current vessel forms but preferred dish and Lekaniden.

Works (selection)

• Paris, Louvre

• Reading, Ure Museum

• San Francisco, Fine Arts Museum