Epictetos

About 40 signed pieces by the hand of Epictetos, an Athenian red-figure vase painter, exist. 164 vases are more or less securely attributed to him. Essentially a painter of cups, Epictetos stands out through his elegant designs and his expressive simplicity. He worked in a crucial time in the history of Greek art, the end of the sixth and the beginning of the fifth century BC, when the painter Euphronios and his circle revolutionized the representation of the human body. French text.