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Gorgon Painter
( fl c. 600–c. 580 BC). Greek vase painter. The Gorgon Painter is named after a dinos with stand (Paris, Louvre, E 874) showing the Gorgons chasing Perseus after he has decapitated their sister Medusa. He decorated only c. 35 extant vases, but these take many shapes; some, such as his namepiece, are large, as are the standed kraters and amphorae, others are smaller, such as oinochoai. One of his lekythoi is of the rare round-bodied type (London, Russell priv. col.; see Beazley, 1956). He was also the first Attic Black-figure artist to decorate plates, and some splendid examples survive. Almost all his vases with known provenances come from Attica, with a few from Naukratis, since at this time Greek vases were not generally exported to Italy.
Part of the Vase painters family
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