the Telephos Painter

Active c. 470–450 BC

School Athenian; Penthesilea workshop

Works 11 vases

Identified Identified by Beazley.

Medium confidence

Name & Etymology

Named after a kylix showing the myth of Telephos (Heracles' son) in the Getty Museum.

Named by J.D. Beazley in ARV² (1963)

Attribution Confidence Medium

No signed works. Moderate-sized attributed corpus. Stylistically related to the Penthesilea Painter.

The Telephos Painter was an Athenian red-figure cup-painter active c. 470–450 BC, named after a kylix depicting the Telephos myth. He was closely related to the Penthesilea Painter and may have worked in the same workshop.

Scholarly Controversies

Some scholars consider him part of the broader Penthesilea workshop.

11 vases by the Telephos Painter

Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

RF Kylix · 480–470 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 rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

RF Kylix · 480–470 BCE

Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

RF 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 · 480–470 BCE

Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

RF Kylix · 480–470 BCE

Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

RF Kylix · 480–470 BCE

Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

RF Kylix · 480–470 BCE

Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

RF Kylix · 480–470 BCE

Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)