Meidias Painter. The Meidias Painter was an Athenian red-figure vase painter in Ancient Greece, active in the last quarter of the 5th century BCE.
He is named after the potter whose signature is found on a large hydria of the Meidias Painter's decoration, excavated from an Etruscan tomb. Eduard Gerhard first identified this inscription in 1839, and it was he who determined the scene on the vase was the rape of the daughters of Leukippos where previously it was thought to be the race of Hippomenes and Atalanta.
The Meidias Painter's work bears a close similarity to his older contemporaries the Kodros Painter, the Eretria Painter and Aison; these last two have both been suggested for his teacher. Indeed, it has also been suggested that works ascribed to the Meidias Painter are in fact late works by Aison.
John Beazley attributed 22 vases and fragments to the Meidias Painter with a further 2 possible ascriptions, certain attribution is complicated by the large number of followers the ornate style of the Meidias Painter engendered. His school includes 9 individually identifiable artists or groups; the total number of distinct vases Beazley gives to the Meidias Painter and his circle is 192.
The latest catalogue raisonne list 36 vases by the Meidias Painter, 34 by named followers and 167 under the manner of the Meidias Painter. The Meidian style has variously been called florid or mannerist and migh
He is named after the potter whose signature is found on a large hydria of the Meidias Painter's decoration, excavated from an Etruscan tomb. Eduard Gerhard first identified this inscription in 1839, and it was he who determined the scene on the vase was the rape of the daughters of Leukippos where previously it was thought to be the race of Hippomenes and Atalanta.
The Meidias Painter's work bears a close similarity to his older contemporaries the Kodros Painter, the Eretria Painter and Aison; these last two have both been suggested for his teacher. Indeed, it has also been suggested that works ascribed to the Meidias Painter are in fact late works by Aison.
John Beazley attributed 22 vases and fragments to the Meidias Painter with a further 2 possible ascriptions, certain attribution is complicated by the large number of followers the ornate style of the Meidias Painter engendered. His school includes 9 individually identifiable artists or groups; the total number of distinct vases Beazley gives to the Meidias Painter and his circle is 192.
The latest catalogue raisonne list 36 vases by the Meidias Painter, 34 by named followers and 167 under the manner of the Meidias Painter. The Meidian style has variously been called florid or mannerist and migh
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