Exekias: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Execias
Flourished	c.550 BCE - c.525 BCE
Movement / Style	black-figure pottery

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“Dionysus Crossing the Sea,” interior of a kylix (shallow drinking cup) by Exekias, c. 535 bc; in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich

Exekias: amphora with Ajax and Achilles

Figure 118: Achilles slaying Penthesilea, Attic amphorain the black-figure style, signed by Exekias, c. 530 BC.In the British Museum. Height 41.3 cm.

Figure 4: Amphora with Ajax and Achilles playing a board game, painted by Exekias, c. 550-540 BC. In the Vatican Museum. Height 61 cm.

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Athenian red-figure cup, detail of a bearded reveler by the Brygos Painter, c. 490 bc; in the Louvre, Paris.

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“Dionysus and the Maenads,” amphora by the Amasis Painter, c. 530 bc; in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris

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Berlin amphora

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