Painter
the Veii Painter
Name & Etymology
Named after vases found at Veii, an Etruscan city near Rome. The findspot name reflects the importance of the Etruscan market for Athenian pottery.
Named by J.D. Beazley
in ABV (1956)
Attribution Confidence
Medium
No signed works. Modest corpus. Named after the findspot of key works rather than a museum piece, unusually for Beazley.
The Veii Painter was an Athenian black-figure painter active c. 530–500 BC, named after vases found at the Etruscan site of Veii.
Scholarly Controversies
Some overlap with related painters debated.
13 vases by the Veii Painter
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Kylix
· 460–450 BCE
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Kylix
· 460–450 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Kylix
· 460–450 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Kylix
· 460–450 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Kylix
· 460–450 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Kylix
· 460–450 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Kylix
· 460–450 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Kylix
· 460–450 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Kylix
· 460–450 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Kylix
· mid-5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF
Kylix
· second quarter of the 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF
Kylix
· second quarter of the 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
RF
Kylix
· second quarter of the 5th century BCE
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)