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the Painter of the Paris Gigantomachy

Active c. 470–450 BC
School Athenian
Works 12 vases
Identified Identified by Beazley.
Medium confidence
Name & Etymology
Named after a cup in Paris (Bibliothèque nationale, Cabinet des Médailles) depicting a Gigantomachy (battle of gods and giants).
Named by J.D. Beazley in ARV² (1963)
Attribution Confidence Medium
No signed works. Named after the subject and location of the name-vase.
The Painter of the Paris Gigantomachy was an Athenian red-figure cup-painter active c. 470–450 BC.
Scholarly Controversies
Minimal.
12 vases by the Painter of the Paris Gigantomachy
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Kylix · 490–470 BCE
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Kylix · 480–470 BCE
Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)
Kylix · 480–470 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Kylix · 490–480 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Kylix · 490–480 BCE
Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)
Kylix · 490–480 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Kylix · 480–470 BCE
Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)
Kylix · 480–470 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Kylix · 480–470 BCE
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Kylix · 480–470 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Kylix · 490–480 BCE
Kylix
Kylix
Kylix · ca. 490–480 BCE
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)