TheLion Painter was one of the earliestAthensblack-figure vase painters. He was active between 630 and 600 BC.

He was a contemporary of theNessos Painter, but remained a less significant influence, in spite of his artistic achievements. All vases ascribed to him depict lions. His work is only known from a few fragments, which are, however, consistently of very high quality. The bald lion on hisname vase appears to look sorrowful.

• Athen, National Museum: Neck amphora 16392, 16393 and 16394
• Athen, Vlasto collection: Fragment of a neck amphora
• New York, Metropolitan Museum:Fragment 38.11.10

• John D. Beazley:Attic Black-figure Vase-painters. Oxford 1956, p. 2.
• John Boardman:Schwarzfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Ein Handbuch, von Zabern, 4. edn, Mainz 1994 (Kulturgeschichte der Antiken Welt, Vol)ISBN 3-8053-0233-9, p. 18.

• Ancient Greek vase painters
• Artists of ancient Attica
• 7th-century BC Greek people
• Anonymous artists of antiquity

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