Sappho Painter

[1] The artist's name vase is a kalpis depicting the poet Sappho, currently held by the National Museum, Warsaw (Inv.

The hand of the Sappho Painter has been identified on 95 vessels, 70% of which are lekythoi.

Their work has also been identified on tomb wall slabs and epinetra.

[1] Nearly half of this artist's paintings are of the white-ground style.

They apparently avoided the then-predominant red-figure technique, but sometimes used Six's technique whereby figures are laid on a black surface in white or red and details are incised so that the black shows through.