The Lycurgus Painter worked in one of the Greek colonies in Apulia in South Italy in the mid-300s B.C. decorating vases in the red-figure technique. One of the leading painters of the so-called "Ornate Style" of South Italian vase-painting, he was skilled at showing perspective and creating an illusion of spatial depth. His vases are filled with many figures, which are often placed in mannered pos
