Painter of the Vatican Mourner

The Painter of the Vatican Mourner was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active in the middle of the sixth century BC and closely connected with the artists of the E Group.

His name vase is in the Vatican Museum[1] and depicts a mourning woman standing before the nude body of a dead man on a bed of straw.

There is no consensus on the interpretation of the scene.

Eos and Sarpedon have been suggested, as have Oinone and Paris.

John Boardman describes him as a thoughtful but sometimes inprecise artist.