The Rainone Painter decorated vases in the red-figure technique in the Greek colonies in South Italy in the period from 375 to 350 B.C. Favoring Dionysiac and phlyax scenes, he tended to paint large vessels like kraters and amphorae. A distinguishing feature of the work of the Rainone Painter is the way he drew the youths that decorate the back of his vases. One youth often stands with a hand on h
