Timiades Painter (c-590 - c-530). The Timiades Painter is an Attic vase painter of the black-figure style. His creative period is in the second quarter of the 6th century BC. The Timiades painter is best known for his drawings on Tyrrhenian amphorae. The rooster monsters he created are particularly striking. His many inscriptions on the people and mythical figures he depicts are also striking. On a Tyrrhenian amphora, for example, he depicts Heracles fighting the Amazons, and on another the sacrifice of Polyxena. He belongs to the Tyrrhenian group.
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