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Ancient Greek vase painter

**Kleitias** ([Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek): Κλειτίας, sometimes rendered as **Klitias**[1]) was an ancient [Athenian](/source/Athens) vase painter of the [black-figure style](/source/Black-figure_pottery) who flourished c. 570–560 BCE. Kleitias' most celebrated work today is the [François Vase](/source/Fran%C3%A7ois_Vase) (c. 570 BCE), which bears over two hundred figures in its six friezes. Painted inscriptions on four pots and one ceramic stand name Kleitias as their painter and [Ergotimos](/source/Ergotimos) as their potter,[2] showing the craftsmen's close collaboration.[3] A variety of other fragments have been attributed to him on a stylistic basis.[4]

## Signed works

The "François Vase"

- Berlin, Antikensammlung V. I. 4604: [Gordion cup](/source/Gordion_cup) from [Gordion](/source/Gordion)

- Florence, Museo Archeologico 4209 ("[François Vase](/source/Fran%C3%A7ois_Vase)", also known as "Klitias krater"): volute krater

- London, British Museum 1948.8-15.1 u. 2; 88.6-1.215, 424, 427 + Cambridge N 206: fragments of a cup from [Naukratis](/source/Naucratis)

- London, British Museum 88.6-1.237, 324, 426; 1948.8-15.3 u. 4: fragments of a cup from Naukratis

- New York, Metropolitan Museum 31.11.4: stand from [Vari](/source/Vari)

## See also

- [Painter of Acropolis 606](/source/Painter_of_Acropolis_606)

- [Black-figure vase painting](/source/Black-figure_pottery)

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** The form *Kleitias* was firmly established by [G. M. A. Richter](/source/G._M._A._Richter), "A Stand by Kleitias and an Athenian Jug", in: *The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin* 26.12, Part 1 (December 1931:289-294) esp. p. 290. In scholarly literature, it is often written *Klitias* (like on the François Vase) because the Ancient Greek diphthong *ei* is frequently rendered as *i* in post-antique transliterations of Ancient Greek words and names.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** See [J. D. Beazley](/source/J._D._Beazley), Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford 1956) 76-78.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** There is only one pot with an inscription naming Ergotimos as its potter which has **not** been attributed to Kleitias as a painter. See J. D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford 1956) 79-80.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** See the essential list in J. D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford 1956) 77-79. Examples found or attributed later include particularly D. von Bothmer, "A New Kleitias Fragment from Egypt", in: *Antike Kunst* 24, 1981, 66-67.

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## Bibliography

- [John Beazley](/source/John_Beazley): *Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters*, Oxford 1956, p. 76–78.

- Bettina Kreuzer: *Klitias*, in: Künstlerlexikon der Antike Vol 1, 2001, p. 419–420.

## External links

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- [Klitias in the Beazley-Archive](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/vor?target=en%2C0;collection=Perseus%3Acollection%3ABeazley;lookup=Kleitias;formentry=1;template=;searchText=;alts=1;extern=1;group=collcat;detail=Perseus%3Acollection%3ABeazley;.cgifields=group;.cgifields=alts;.cgifields=type;.cgifields=extern#Perseus:collection:Beazley)

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