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Oltos
( fl c. 525–c. 500 BC). Greek vase painter. He was an important early Athenian Red-figure artist. He apparently trained in the workshop of NIKOSTHENES and initially specialized in bilingual eye cups, decorating more extant specimens than any other artist. Indeed, most of his over 150 surviving works are cups, including the two potted by Euxitheos that bear Oltos’ painter-signature (Berlin, Pergamonmus., 2269; Tarquinia, Pal. Vitelleschi, RC 6848). He was particularly influenced by the earliest Red-figure artists, the ANDOKIDES PAINTER and PSIAX, while his Black-figure output recalls Psiax in motif and the ANTIMENES PAINTER in style. Oltos employed Black-figure exclusively for scenes on eye-cup tondos, such as the Running Dionysos Carrying a Rhyton and Vine (Rome, Vatican, Mus. Gregoriano Etrus. 498) or the Spear-bearing Trumpeters (Rome, Vatican, Mus. Gregoriano Etrus., 46; Bryn Mawr Coll., PA, Riegal Mem. Mus.), using fine incision and substantial added red. Between the large eyes on the cups’ exteriors he painted Red-figure trumpeters, warriors, athletes, women, beasts, plants or inanimate objects. The genre suited his forthright, repetitive style.
Part of the Vase painters family
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