Acheloos painter
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Athlete with jumping weights in his hands and aulos musician , black- figure lekythos by the Acheloos painter, Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 1892)
The Acheloos painter (active around 525 to 500 BC in Athens ) was a Greek vase painter of the black-figure style. It received its emergency name after a depiction of the battle of the river god Acheloos against Heracles on the amphora F in 1851 in the Berlin Collection of Antiquities . He belonged to the so-called Leagros group .
Selected Works
- Altenburg, State Lindenau Museum
- Neck amphora 221
- Basel, Antikenmuseum and Ludwig Collection
- Abdominal amphora BS 1906.294
- Berlin, Collection of Antiquities
- Amphora F 1845 • Amphora F 1851 • Hydria F 1905
- Cambridge, Harvard University Art Museums
- Amphora 1960.314
- Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco
- Pointed amphora 3871
- London, The British Museum
- Panathenaic amphora B 167
- Mississippi, University of Mississippi
- Amphora 1977.3.71
- Munich, Glyptothek and Antikensammlung
- Pointed amphora SL 459
- Reading, The Ure Museum of Greek Archeology
- Amphora 10/45/22
- Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art
- Pointed amphora 58.69
- Würzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum
- Amphora 210
literature
- John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1956
Web links
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SURNAME | Acheloos painter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek vase painter of the black-figure style |
DATE OF BIRTH | 6th century BC Chr. |
DATE OF DEATH | 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr. |