Acheloos Painter

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Athlet holding jumping weights and aulos player, black-figure lekythos by the Acheloos Painter, Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 1892).

The Acheloos Painter (active around 525 - 500 BCE in Athens) was an ancient Greek vase painter of the black-figure style. He received his name after a representation of the fight of the river god Acheloos and Heracles on Amphora F 1851 in the Berlin Antique collection.

[edit] Selected Works

• Altenburg, Staatliches Lindenau-Museum

Amphora 221

• Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig

Amphora BS 1906.294

• Berlin, Antikensammlung

Amphora F 1845 • Amphora F 1851 • Hydria F 1905

• Cambridge, Harvard University Art Museums

Amphora 1960.314

• Florenz, Museo Archeologico Etrusco

Amphora 3871

• London, The British Museum

Panathenäische Amphora B 167

• Mississippi, University of Mississippi

Amphora 1977.3.71

• München, Staatliche Antikensammlung

Amphora SL 459

• Reading, The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology

Amphora 45.10.22

• Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art

Amphora 58.69

• Würzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum

Amphora 210

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• John Beazley. Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956.