Cactus painter

The cactus painter named with the emergency name ( English Cactus Painter ) was an Attic vase painter of the black-figure style . His works are dated to the late 6th and early 5th centuries BC. Dated.

The cactus painter belonged to the Leagros group and only decorated lekyths . The vase painter drew pictures of particular delicacy, surpassing many other artists in the Leagros group. The cactus painter got his modern emergency name because of the prickly, pear-shaped fruits that adorned his palmette tendrils.

literature

Emilie Haspels : Attic black-figured lekythoi Boccard, Paris 1936. pp. 61–62.
John D. Beazley : Attic Black-figure Vase-painters . Oxford 1956, p. 472.
John Boardman : Black-Figure Vases from Athens. A handbook (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 1). 4th edition. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9 , p. 126.

personal data
SURNAME	Cactus painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Attic vase painter of the black-figure style
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	5th century BC Chr.