Chrysis Painter
5th-century BC Attic vase painter
About Chrysis Painter
Chrysis Painter was an attic vase-painter.
Red-figure Hydria by the Chrysis Painter, BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Chrysis Painter was an anonymous ancient Greek red-figure vase painter who worked in Athens around 420–410 BC. He is identified by his name vase, a hydria now kept in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (accession number 06.1021.185). which has the name "Chrysis" inscribed next to the figure of a woman. He has been described as belonging to the school of the Dinos Painter.
A total of five pieces have been ascribed to the Chrysis Painter. Another of them is kept in the British Museum in London (vase E503).
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5th-century BC Attic vase painter
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