Codrus Painter

{{Short description|Classical Greece vase painter}} The '''Codrus Painter''' was a [[Greeks|Greek]] [[vase]]-painter of the [[Attica|Attic]] [[Red-figure pottery|red-figure style]], who flourished between 440 and 420 BC.<ref>{{cite book|last=Avramidou|first=Amalia|title=The Codrus Painter: Iconography and Reception of Athenian Vases in the Age of Pericles|year=2011|publisher=Wisconsin University Press|location=Madison|pages=5}}</ref> His actual name is unknown and his conventional name is derived from his name-vase, now in [[Bologna]], which depicts the mythical Athenian king, [[Codrus]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Avramidou|first=Amalia|title=The Codrus Painter: Iconography and Reception of Athenian Vases in the Age of Pericles|year=2011|publisher=Wisconsin University Press|location=Madison|pages=3}}</ref> He is most famous for his red-figure [[Kylix (drinking cup)|kylix]] showing the deeds of [[Theseus]], now in the [[British Museum]].<ref>{{cite web|title=A Red-figure kylix by the Codrus Painter|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?assetId=86362&objectId=399270&partId=1|publisher=The British Museum, London.}}</ref> Stylistically the Codrus Painter is close to the [[Aison]] and the [[Eretria Painter]], and his vases have been found in three tombs with these artists.<ref>{{cite book|last=Avramidou|first=Amalia|title=The Codrus Painter: Iconography and Reception of Athenian Vases in the Age of Pericles|year=2011|publisher=Wisconsin University Press|location=Madison|pages=5–6}}</ref>

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