Douris (vase painter)

Douris or Duris (Ancient Greek: Δοῦρις, Douris) was an ancient Athenian red-figure vase-painter and potter active c. 500 to 460 BCE.

He began his career painting for the potters Kleophrades and Euphronios, before beginning a long collaboration with the potter Python.

[3] The majority of these vases are kylixes, i.e. cups.

His name seems to have been popular, since one finds it on other vases: it is reproduced on a cup by Onesimos.

[4] On the basis of these signatures, his kalos inscriptions, and of the subsidiary decoration of the vases, the art historian John Beazley divided his career into four principal periods: Media related to Douris at Wikimedia Commons

Peleus abducts Thetis , who is shape-shifting into a lioness to fight back, medallion of a cup of Phase IV, border with double meander, Cabinet des médailles, BNF (Inv. 539)
Jason being regurgitated by the dragon who keeps the Golden Fleece (center, hanging on the tree); Athena stands to the right. Red-figured kylix , c. 480–470 BC. From Cerveteri ( Etruria ). Vaticans Museums
"Hook" collarbone characteristic of the style of Douris, detail of a medaillon of a cup, c. 480 } BCE, Louvre (G 121).
Signature of Douris ΔΟΡΙΣ ΕΓΡΑΦΣΕΝ, detail of the cup called "pieta of Memnon", c. 490-480 BCE, Louvre (G 115).