Brygos

Brygos was a Greek potter and about 490-470 BC. Active in Athens .

Paris, Cabinet des Médailles: Dionysus and Satyre on a vase painted by the Brygos painter; around 480 BC Chr.

Brygos was known as a first class pottery maker and over 200 pottery items, mostly bowls, have survived from him.

A well-known vase painter worked in the pottery workshop of Brygos, who is called the Brygos painter after the workshop . He belongs to the group of the most important Attic vase painters of the red-figure style.

Famous works:

Iliupersis bowl ( Paris, Louvre )
Maenad with snake, predator and ivy as the interior of a white-ground drinking bowl ( Munich, Antikensammlungen )

literature

Ingeborg Scheibler : Greek pottery art. Manufacture, trade and use of antique clay pots . 2nd revised and expanded edition. CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-39307-1 , ( Beck's archaeological library ).

Web links

Commons : Brygos - collection of images, videos and audio files

Carl Robert : Brygos . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 922-925.

personal data
SURNAME	Brygos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek potter
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	5th century BC Chr.