Phintias (painter)
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Phintias was an ancient Greek vase painter. He worked in the red-figure style, and was an early member of the Pioneer Group of artists who made innovative contributions to the medium through their int
The rape of Leto by Tityos, from an amphora by Phintias, c. 515 BCE
Cup (kylix) painted by Phintias: John Beazley and Martin Robertson consider this "proto-Pioneer" in style, and the earliest known work attributable to him.
Kylix (wine-cup) showing the contest of Heracles and Apollo for the Delphic tripod. Campbell considers this among Phintias's greatest paintings.
Amphora showing a Dionysiac thiasos, praised by Schefold as "a masterpiece of archaic spatial disposition"
Oltos
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Oltos was a Late Archaic Greek vase painter, active in Athens from 525 BC to 500 BC. About 150 works by him are known. Two pieces, a cup in Berlin and a cup in Tarquinia, are signed by him as painter.
Athena and Enceladus in combat, red-figure plate, Louvre CA 3662.
Dionysos, interior image from a bilingual cup (A), Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 2593).
Eurystheus hiding in a jar as Herakles brings him the Erymanthian boar. Side A from a red-figure kylix by Oltos, ca. 510 BC, Paris, Louvre (G17).