Edinburgh Painter | |
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![]() Possibly Aias Telamonios and Odysseus fighting over Achilles' weapons, painting by the Edinburgh Painter. White-ground Attic lekythos, c. 500 BC, from
Eretria. | |
Born | Unknown. Named from one of his vases in the Edinburgh Museum. Before 545 BC Probably Athens |
Nationality | Athenian |
Known for | Vase painting |
Movement | Black-figure style |
The Edinburgh Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active around 500 BC. His speciality was white-ground lekythoi painted in the black-figure style.
His real name is unknown. His conventional name is derived from his name vase in Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland 1956.436.