Painter
the Painter of the Paris Gigantomachy
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 fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF
Kylix
· 490–480 BCE
Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)
Kylix
· 490–480 BCE
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF
Kylix
· 480–470 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF
Kylix
· 490–480 BCE
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF
Kylix
· 490–470 BCE
Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)
Kylix
· 480–470 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF
Kylix
· 480–470 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF
Kylix
· 480–470 BCE
Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)
Kylix
· 480–470 BCE
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF
Kylix
· 480–470 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF
Kylix
· 490–480 BCE
Kylix
RF
Kylix
· ca. 490–480 BCE
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)