Edinburgh Painter
{{short description|Unidentified ancient Greek vase painter}}
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| name = Edinburgh Painter
| image = Achilles weapons Louvre CA545.jpg
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| caption = Possibly Aias Telamonios and Odysseus fighting over Achilles' weapons, painting by the Edinburgh Painter. White-ground Attic lekythos, c. 500 BC, from Eretria.
| birth_name = Unknown. Named from one of his vases in the Edinburgh Museum.
| birth_date = Before 545 BC
| birth_place = Probably Athens
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| nationality = Athenian
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| field = Vase painting
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| movement = Black-figure style
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}}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 style.
His real name is unknown. His conventional name is derived from his name vase in Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland 1956.436.
Gallery
Image:NAMA Pélée, Achille & Chiron.jpg|Lekythos, Peleas, Achilles and Cheiron, Athens, National Museum 550
Image:NAMA Thésée & taureau.jpg|Lekythos, Theseus and the bull, Athens, National Museum 1124
Image:NAMA Ulysse & sirène 1.jpg|Lekythos, Odysseus and a siren, Athens, National Museum 1130
Image:Edinburgh P 1872.23.12.JPG|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
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- [http://vanth.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/vor?lang=en&full=0&alts=1&group=typecat&lookup=Edinburgh%20Painter Vases by the Edinburgh Painter in Perseus]{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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