Douris

Douris

(flourished early 5th century BC, Greece) Greek vase painter. He was known for his work in red-figure pottery, which exhibit his fine draftsmanship and rhythmic composition. He decorated his vases with a variety of themes, including the legend of the Golden Fleece. His signature has been identified on some 40 vases; more than 200 have been attributed to him, including a cup depicting Eos Embracing Her Dead Son Memnon.

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Douris 

(also Duris), an ancient Greek Attic vase painter of the first third of the fifth century B.C., a representative of the “severe style.” About 280 of his vases have been preserved, of which 39 bear his signature. They depict genre scenes and scenes from mythology, elegantly and clearly drawn, with elongated figures. These include the amphora The Athlete and Nike (the Hermitage, Leningrad); the kylikes Eos Em-bracing Her Dead Son Memnon (the Louvre, Paris), In School (Classical Collection, Berlin), and Neoptolemus and Odysseus (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna); and the psykter (cooler) Drunken Sileni (the British Museum, London).

REFERENCE

Wegner, M. Duris. Ein künstler-monographischer Versuch. Münster, 1968.