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the Ambrosios Painter
Painter

the Ambrosios Painter

Active c. 510–490 BC
School Athenian
Works 14 vases
Identified Identified by Beazley.
Medium confidence
Name & Etymology
Named after the kalos inscription "Ambrosios kalos" found on his vases.
Named by J.D. Beazley in ARV² (1963)
Attribution Confidence Medium
No signed works. The kalos name provides chronological evidence. Moderate-sized corpus.
The Ambrosios Painter was an Athenian red-figure cup-painter active c. 510–490 BC, named after the kalos inscription Ambrosios found on his vases.
Scholarly Controversies
Minimal.
14 vases by the Ambrosios Painter
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF Kylix · 520–500 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF Kylix · 520–500 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF Kylix · 520–500 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF Kylix · 520–500 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF Kylix · 520–500 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF Kylix · 520–500 BCE
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF Kylix · 520–500 BCE
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF Kylix · 520–500 BCE
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF Kylix · 520–500 BCE
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF Kylix · 520–500 BCE
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF Kylix · 520–500 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF Kylix · 520–500 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF Kylix · 520–500 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF Kylix · 520–500 BCE
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)