Sotades Painter Explained

The Sotades Painter (fl. 470 BCE - 450 BCE) was a 5th-century BCE Athenian vase painter, "one of the most familiar names in vase painting".^[1]

Sotades is the potter's signature on his vases; it may have also been the name of the painter himself.^[2]

Sotades worked in both red figure and white ground technique.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Herbert Hoffman, Sotades: Symbols of Immortality on Greek Vases, 1997,, flyleaf
2. Gordon Campbell, The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture,, 2007, at Oxford Reference, s.v. 'Sotades Painter'