The Theseus Painter decorated vases in Athens in the period from about 510 to 490 B.C. Long after most vase-painters had switched to red-figure, he worked in the black-figure technique. A versatile and innovative artist, he decorated a wide variety of vase shapes but specialized in skyphoi and lekythoi. On many of his works he covered the vase with a white-ground slip before adding the black-figur
