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The Meidias Painter’s work bears a close similarity to his older contemporaries the Kodros Painter, the Eretria Painter and Aison. These last two have both been suggested for his teacher.
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He is named after the potter whose signature is found on a large hydria of the Meidias Painter’s decoration (Bachelor of Medicine East 224), excavated from an Etruscan tomb. Eduard Gerhard first identified this inscription in 1839, and it was he who determined the scene on the vase was the rape of the daughters of Leukippos where previously it was thought to be the race of Hippomenes and Atalanta. Indeed it has also been suggested that works ascribed to the Meidias Painter are in fact late works by Aison.
His school includes 9 individually identifiable artists or groups.
The total number of distinct vases Beazley gives to the Meidias Painter and his circle is 192.
