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Reed Painter
( fl c. 420–c. 410 BC). Greek vase painter. He mainly decorated small or medium-sized Attic White-ground lekythoi, exclusively in matt paint, and is named after the reeds that he often depicted. His output was large, but monotonous both in its subject-matter and in its individual motifs. He usually depicted only two figures: generally a youth and a woman, less often two women, on either side of a broad funerary stele; or Charon waiting in his boat among the reeds to ferry the deceased, normally a woman, across the Styx. His more unusual pictures, which include several depicting three figures, battles or horse-riding, and one depicting a prothesis, mostly occur on a few larger lekythoi.
Part of the Vase painters family
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