Working in Athens in the period from about 480 to 460 B.C., the Aegisthus Painter decorated vases in the red-figure technique. His surviving vases suggest that he specialized in the decoration of large vessels. His work marks the transition from the Archaic to the Classical style in Greek vase-painting. The Aegisthus Painter's fondness for crowded, multi-figured scenes carried over from the Archai
