( fl c. 450–c. 425 BC). Greek vase painter. He was a prolific Athenian Red-figure artist of the High Classical period (c. 450–c. 400 BC), who was trained in the workshop of the NIOBID PAINTER, from whom he derived his monumental style. This was apparently based on Early Classical wall paintings, notably by MIKON and POLYGNOTOS OF THASOS, after whom this vase painter was probably named, and is characterized by the use of an uneven ground-line to suggest landscape, as on Polygnotos’ early pelike showing Apollo Attacking Tityos (Paris, Louvre, G 375).

Part of the Vase painters family

• Polygnotos (fl c. 450-425 BC)
  • Greece, ancient, §V, 6(i)(c): Attic Red-figure pottery: Early and High Classical
  • Pliny: (1) Pliny the elder, §2(iv): Natural History, Book XXXV: Painting
  • Vase painters, §II: Niobid Painter
  • assistants
    • Greece, ancient, §V, 1(iv): Potters, painters and society
  • methods
    • Encaustic painting, §2(i): Pre-Renaisssance
  • pupils
    • Vase painters, §II: Kleophon Painter