Stamnos
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A stamnos is a type of ancient Greek vase used to serve and store liquids. Stamnoi have a wide mouth, a foot, and two handles, and were usually made with a lid. The earliest known examples come from a
Attic red-figure stamnos, c. 480 BCE; Louvre
Bronze Etruscan stamnos from Populonia, 5th century BCE
Red-figure stamnos with Dionysos and his followers, 440s BCE
Etruscan stamnos, showing the sea-monster Scylla
Berlin Painter
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The Berlin Painter is the conventional name given to an Attic Greek vase painter who is widely regarded as among the most talented of his time. There are no painter signatures on any of the Berlin Pai
Stamnos
…a ladle. They were painted in red-figure, in black-figure and using Six's technique, by artists including Oltos, Euphronios, Smikros, Polygnotos, the Berlin Painter and the Kleophrades Painter. Their manufacture ceased around 420 BCE, possibly due to the reduction in trade between Athens and Italy brought on by the…
Neck amphora depicting an athlete running the hoplitodromos by the Berlin Painter, c. 480 BCE, Louvre
Dionysos holding a kantharos (drinking cup). Side A from an Attic red-figure amphora, c. 490–480 BCE. Found in Vulci, Italy.
Berlin Painter's namepiece
Kithara player, c. 490 BC