The Antimenes Painter was an Attic

Attica

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 vase painter of the black-figure style, active between circa 530 and 510 BC.

The real name of the Antimenes Painter is not known; his current name is an archaeological convention. It is derived from the Kalos inscription

Kalos inscription

The Kalos inscription was a form of epigraph found on Attic vases and graffiti in antiquity, common between 550 and 450 BC, and usually found on symposion vessels. The word καλός means "beautiful"; here it had an erotic connotation, and the inscription took the form of a youth's name, in the...

 on a hydria

Hydria

A hydria is a type of Greek pottery used for carrying water. The hydria has three handles. Two horizontal handles on either side of the body of the pot were used for lifting and carrying the pot. The third handle, a vertical one, located in the center of the other two handles, was used when...

 in Leyden. Of the 150 works ascribed to him, the majority are hydriai and standard amphora

Amphora

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e. Most works attributed to him were found in Etruria

Etruria

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. He is considered to have been connected with the workshop of Andokides

Andokides

Andokides was a famous potter of Ancient Greece. The painter of his pots was an anonymous artist, the Andokides painter, who is recognized as the creater of the red-figure style, beginning around 530 BC. His work is compared with Exekias, who was said to have created the most detailed and best...

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He depicted the current repertoire of his period: the adventures of Herakles, Dionysos and his companions, and chariot scenes. He varies the themes, his compositions are described as organised. His distinctive motifs are rather idyllic, often including smaller figurines subsidiary to the main narrative. Examples are a well scene on the aforementioned Leyden hydria and a depiction of the olive harvest on an amphora in the British Museum

British Museum

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 at London

London

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His drawing style resembles that of Psaix; influences by the early red-figure style are also apparent. Nonetheless, he contined to use the black-figure technique, which maintained many followers. It his hard to distinguish him and associated painters from the Antimenes Painter. Some examples of his later works are striking in the fine and expressive quality of the drawing.