( fl c. 410–c. 390 BC). Greek vase painter. He was an exponent of the florid style of Athenian vase painting of the late 5th century BC and early 4th, and he is named after the flute player Pronomos ( fl c. 400–c. 380 BC) depicted on a large volute krater (Naples, Mus. Archeol. N., 3240). The Pronomos Painter may have been a pupil of both the Dinos Painter and the Kadmos Painter, and his style is particularly close to that of the Painter of Louvre G 433, with whom he collaborated on one vase (Berlin, Staatliche Museen, 2642). The Painter of Vienna 1089 must have been his pupil. The Pronomos Painter decorated at least one volute krater, two bell kraters and a squat lekythos, and his later works probably included a pelike (Athens, N. Archaeol. Mus., 1333), a calyx krater (Genoa, Mus. Osp. Civ., 1911.163) and a hydria (San Simeon, CA, State Historical Monument). His subject-matter can be mythological, Dionysiac or even theatrical, for his name-vase shows the actors, chorus and poet of a satyr-play. The florid style in which he worked is exemplified by the depiction of garments richly ornamented with enscrolled palmettes, rosettes or asterisks and by the considerable use of white and golden dilute glaze. His treatment of the male torso in three-quarter view and of the head in profile is also characteristic.

Part of the Vase painters family

• Pronomos Painter
  • Greece, ancient, §V, 6(i)(d): Attic Red-figure pottery: Late 5th century B