
Brygos
Sign in to savethumb|Dionysos and [[satyrs on a vase made by Brygos and painted by the Brygos Painter, ca. 480 BC (Cabinet des Médailles, Paris)]]
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- Dionysos satyrs Cdm Paris 575.jpg
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- name in native language
- Βρýγοέ
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- Brygos
- date of birth
- 0600-01-01
- date of death
- 0500-01-01
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- Workshop
- Brygos and the Brygos Painter
- Signatures
- The Brygos Tomb
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thumb|Dionysos and [[satyrs on a vase made by Brygos and painted by the Brygos Painter, ca. 480 BC (Cabinet des Médailles, Paris)]]
Brygos was a potter who is conventionally placed among the major Attic potters active around 490–470 BC, based on the dating of workshop vases and the stylistic chronology of red-figure pottery. The majority of surviving vessels associated with Brygos are kylikes, many of which depict scenes related to wine drinking or symposia. This suggests that Brygos’ workshop may have specialized especially in the production of symposium cups. Fourteen surviving drinking cups carry the inscription “Brygos made me” (), which indicates that his workshop mainly produced cups rather than other vessel types. Several vase painters worked for him, including the well known Brygos Painter, and the workshop played an important part in early Classical Athenian pottery.