The Chimaera Painter worked in Corinth, decorating vases in the black-figure technique in the period from about 600 to 575 B.C. He specialized in the decoration of plates and bowls but also worked on the occasional pyxis. The Chimaera Painter was the chief vase-painter of a larger group of artists called the Chimaera Group, over which he was very influential. Significantly, scholars can trace the
