Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Tarquinia Painter|Penthesilean
470–460 BCE
Medium
Terracotta
Classification
Vases
Culture & Period
Greek, Attic · Classical
Department
Greek and Roman Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011
Accession Number
2011.604.1.3381
About the Artist
Tarquinia Painter|Penthesilean
The Tarquinia Painter was an ancient Athenian vase painter working in the red-figure technique during the early Classical period, specifically around 470-460 BCE. Like most ancient Greek vase painters, this artist never signed their work, and their artistic identity has been reconstructed by modern scholars, particularly John Beazley, through careful stylistic analysis of unsigned pottery. The pai...