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Achilles Painter

470 BC - 425 BC

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The Achilles Painter was a vase-painter active ca. 470–425 BC. His name vase is an amphora, Vatican 16571, in the Vatican Museums depicting Achilles and dated 450–445 BC. An armed and armored Achilles gazes pensively to the right with one hand on his hip. The other hand holds a spear. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Achilles Painter has received more than 44,084 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Achilles Painter is the 887th most popular painter (up from 1,125th in 2019), the 449th most popular biography from Greece (up from 543rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Greek Painter.

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  • 1.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Achilles Painter ranks 887 out of 2,023Before him are Abraham Bosse, Beatrice Wood, Denis Calvaert, Maerten de Vos, Jacob Adriaensz Backer, and James Gillray. After him are Harriet Backer, Eugène Grasset, Henry Hill, Tarsila do Amaral, Renato Guttuso, and Wilhelm Lehmbruck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 470 BC, Achilles Painter ranks 8Before him are Aspasia, Mozi, Philolaus, Melissus of Samos, Callicrates, and Hippocrates of Chios. After him is Teres I. Among people deceased in 425 BC, Achilles Painter ranks 3Before him are Herodotus, and Zeno of Elea.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Achilles Painter ranks 449 out of 1,024Before him are Pavlos Kountouriotis (1855), Eucleidas (-201), Phylarchus (-255), Dimitar Blagoev (1856), Glaucias of Taulantii (-335), and Victorinus of Pettau (250). After him are Nikolaos Plastiras (1883), Metrodorus of Chios (-500), John Aniston (1933), Michael Glykas (1125), Diocles (-240), and Peter the Patrician (500).

Among PAINTERS In Greece

Among painters born in Greece, Achilles Painter ranks 6Before him are El Greco (1541), Giorgio de Chirico (1888), Nikolaos Gyzis (1842), Jannis Kounellis (1936), and Agatharchus (-500). After him are Apollodorus (-500), Douris (-600), Timarete (-420), Pamphilus (-390), Euphranor (-301), and Nikiforos Lytras (1832).