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The Edinburgh Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active around 500 BC. His speciality was white-ground lekythoi painted in the black-figure style.

His real name is unknown. His conventional name is derived from his name vase in Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland 1956.436.

Gallery

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  Lekythos, Peleas, Achilles and Cheiron, Athens, National Museum 550
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  Lekythos, Theseus and the bull, Athens, National Museum 1124
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  Lekythos, Odysseus and a siren, Athens, National Museum 1130
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  Name vase, Edinburgh, National Museums of Scotland MoS 1872.23.12

Bibliography

• C. H. Emilie Haspels: Attic black-figured lekythoi, Paris 1936, p. 86-89. 215-221.
• John Beazley: Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1956, p. 476-480.
• John Boardman: Schwarzfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Ein Handbuch, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9, p. 159.
• Thomas Mannack: Haspels addenda: additional references to C. H. E. Haspels Attic black-figured Lekythoi. Oxford 2006. ISBN 0-19-726315-1, p.

External links

• Vases by the Edinburgh Painter in Perseus^{[permanent dead link]}