Edinburgh Painter

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 techniques.

1124 : Theseus, Edingburg Painter

Achilles Weapons, Louvre CA545

His real name is unknown. His conventional name is derived from his name vase in Edinburgh, National Museums of Scotland 1956.436.
Gallery

lekythos, Peleas, Achilles and Cheiron, Athens, National Museum 550]]

lekythos, Theseus and the bull, Athens, National Museum 1124

lekythos, Odysseus and a siren, Athens, National Museum 1130

name vase, Edinburgh, National Museums of Scotland MoS 1872.23.12

Bibliography

C. H. Emilie Haspels: Attic black-figured lekythoi, Paris 1936, p. 86-89. 215-221.
John Beazley: Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1956, p. 476-480.
John Boardman: Schwarzfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Ein Handbuch, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9, p. 159.
Thomas Mannack: Haspels addenda: additional references to C. H. E. Haspels Attic black-figured Lekythoi. Oxford 2006. ISBN 0-19-726315-1, p.

External links

Vases by the Edinburgh Painter in Perseus

List of Greek Vase Painters

Greek Vase Painters (Category)

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