Skythes

Skythes (Greek: Σκύθης, the Scythian) was an Attic black-figure[1] and red-figure vase painter active between about 520 and 505 BC.

Modern scholarship considers Skythes as a kind of artistic loner, whose work cannot easily be categorised among the known workshops and groups.

His figural images depict people in an exaggerated ugliness or brutishness, casting him, much in contrast to the norms then prevailing in Greek art, as a comedian, even a satirist.

Two pinakes with black-figure paint that were found the Athenian Acropolis bear the signature of a Skythes.

The Pedieus Painter uses the same name, which has led some scholars to suggest that he is identical with Skythes towards the end of his career.