Eucharides Painter

The Eucharides Painter was an approximate contemporary of and stylistic cousin to the workshop of the Leagros Group, painters who made bold and innovative black-figure vase decorations at the turn of the fifth century BCE. They worked mostly on large-format vessels like amphorae and column kraters, with some production of large lekythoi as well. They favored mythological subjects, often violent ones, including episodes from the Trojan War and the labors of Hercules. Black-figure pots from the Leagros workshop are considered the best ones to have survived from this period. The Eucharides Painter is known to have worked in both black- and red-figure, with the latest examples by him dating from the early fifth century BCE.