Working in Athens, the Eretria Painter decorated vases in the red-figure technique from around 440 to 410 B.C. Over half of the almost 150 vases that scholars attribute to him are cups, but his finest work is on small pots such as oinochoai and lekythoi. The Eretria Painter decorated numerous vases with conventional mythological and athletic scenes, but he also painted more innovative imagery that
