Goltyr Painter Explained

The Goltyr Painter was an Attic vase painter of the black-figure style. He was active in the second quarter of the sixth century BC. He is well known for his work on Tyrrhenian amphorae.^[1] He mostly painted animals, often with rather bulbous heads.

Bibliography

• John Beazley: Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, 1956, p. 94-106.
• John Boardman: Schwarzfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Ein Handbuch, Mainz, 1977,, p. 41.
• Jeroen Kluiver: The Tyrrhenian Group of Black-figure Vases. From the Athenian Kerameikos to the Tombs of South Etruria, Amsterdam, 2003

External links

• Images and descriptions of a Goltyr Painter vase held by the Tampa Museum of Art. Perseus Digital Library.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar) ca. 560 B.C. - Attributed to the Goltyr Painter .