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Rycroft Painter
( fl c. 510 BC). Greek vase painter. He painted in the Black-figure style at a time when most of his contemporaries were turning to Red-figure, and intimations of the new outline technique may be seen in his figures. Beazley associated him with Psiax and the Priam Painter, and Boardman compared his work with the Pioneer Group of Attic Red-figure painters. His name vase (Oxford, Ashmolean, 1965.118), a belly amphora of Type A, bears a scene of Leto Mounting a Chariot with Apollo, Artemis and Hermes in attendance; indeed, chariot scenes occur more often than any other theme in his work. Several amphorae and hydriae show wedding scenes with chariots, and they also occur in some of his Dionysiac scenes, another favourite theme. In addition to vases, a plaque from the Acropolis at Athens is attributed to him, painted with a scene of Athena Watching the Vintage.
Part of the Vase painters family
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