Painter of the Boston Phiale
Anonymous Attic red-figure vase painter active c. 460–430 BCE, known for elegant draftsmanship, crisp relief lines, and narrative scenes on large vessels such as calyx kraters and white-ground chalice kraters. Often linked to the Achilles Painter’s circle, he preferred balanced two-register compositions with lively drapery and gesture. In the Vatican Museums, he is represented by refined red-figure kraters in the Gregorian Etruscan Museum’s Greek Vase Room.
Artworks by Painter of the Boston Phiale
in the Vatican Museums
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Attic Calyx Krater (Painter of the Boston Phiale)
A mid-5th-century BCE mixing bowl by the Painter of the Boston Phiale. Figures in supple contour lines move across a broad, bell-shaped body; dilute-glaze shading gives quiet depth. Meander bands and palmettes frame a clear narrative made for symposia—myth and banquet culture in one vessel.
Attribution to a distinguished early classical hand: the Painter of the Boston Phiale.
