TheAntiphon Painter (fl. 495–480 BC) is theNotname for an Athenianred-figure vase-painter active inancient Greece during the early 5th century BC.^[1] He owes his name to a doubleKalos inscription of Antiphon on the dinos stand in the Antique collection of Berlin (Inventory number F 2325). He learned his handicraft in the workshop ofEuphronios andOnesimos. There he worked closely with them, the Kalmarer Painter and other painters.

There are about 100 drinking containers of his (primarilykylikes) known to us. They almost exclusively depict the life of thearistocratic youth of Athens. They are shown asathletes, insymposia, inkomos scenes, and with theirhorses or in arms. Representations of women – in particularHetairai – are rare, as aremythological topics. When he depicts mythological subjects, they are usually the heroic acts ofHerakles orTheseus. One of his bowls possibly refers to theBattle of Marathon (Orvieto, Collection Faina).

A special speciality of the painter were his red-figureEye-cups. The Antiphon Painter was the last artist to create these.

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• Works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Kylix attributed to the Antiphon Painter at the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum

• 5th-century BC deaths
• Ancient Greek vase painters
• Anonymous artists of antiquity

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