( fl c. 540–c. 520 BC). Greek vase painter. He signed two Attic Black-figure vases as potter and painter and eleven simply as potter. Only about 40 pieces by him survive. His drawing style is sure, his line elegant and refined and his human and animal figures always have a noble look. His sensitivity to the intricate relationship between a vase’s shape and its decoration was equalled only by his contemporary, the AMASIS PAINTER.

Part of the Vase painters family

• Exekias
  • Greece, ancient, §V, 1(iv): Potters, painters and society
  • Greece, ancient, §V, 1(vi)(d): Pottery inscriptions: Artists’ signatures
  • Greece, ancient, §V, 5(ii)(c): Black-figure pottery: Attic, c 560–c 520 BC
  • attributions
    • Vase painters, §II: Group E
  • inscriptions
    • Greece, ancient, §V, 1(vi)(f): Pottery inscriptions: Scripts
  • methods
    • Greece, ancient, §VI, 2(i): Wall and panel painting: Geometric to Archaic
    • Mythological painting and sculpture, §1: Classical antiquity, before c AD 300
  • narratives
    • Narrative art, §I, 3: Ancient Greece and Rome
  • patrons and collectors
    • Greece, ancient, §V, 10: Pottery: Collecting and collections
  • pupils
    • Greece, ancient, §V, 5(ii)(d): Black-figure pottery: Attic, c 520–c 480 BC
    • Vase painters, §II: Lysippides Painter
  • works
    • Dress, §II, 2: Greek
    • Greece, ancient, §V, 1(i): Pottery: Subject-matter