Hands at Work in Magna Graecia:

the Amykos Painter and His Workshop

Fig. 1: The name-vase of the Amykos painter : the hydria in the Cabinet des Medailles, Paris, with the capture of Amykos

Fig. 2

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Fig. 4

The Amykos painter: draped women and youths

Fig. 5-6

Fig. 7

A chous in Oxford, with figure of youths very near to some on the name-vase

Fig. 8

By the Amykos painter: a nestoris once in Boston, MFA, now returned

to Italy

Fig. 9 and parallelsA non-Greek decorative frieze by the Amykos Painter (left) and by the

Dolon Painter (right)

Messapian archaic vase Daunian archaic vases from Canosa

Not by the Amykos Painter: the « Altenburg Group » by the Cyclops Painter under strong amykean influence

Fig. 10-11

Fig. 12

Not (at all) by the Amykos Painter: the Phineus volute-krater in Ruvo, by a Tarentine painter near to the Policoro Painter (Intermediate Group)

Fig. 13

Not by the Amykos painter but by a pupil and imitator (Vaste Painter) : amphora Naples 82263 with the departure of Bellerophon

Fig. 14

Not by the Amykos Painter but by a pupil and imitator: amphora Naples 82264

Fig.15

Amykean diffusion towards the West – Locri and Sicily-: the Painter of Naples 82264 and the Santapaola Painter ?