Phintias (painter)

Phintias (Ancient Greek: Φιντίας; fl. c. 520 – c. 500 BCE) was an ancient Greek vase painter. He worked in the red-figure style, and was an early member of the Pioneer Group of artists who made innovative contributions to the medium through their interest in human anatomy, dynamic poses, and the use of foreshortening.

Phintias may have been a pupil of Psiax, an early red-figure artist, and his early works show similarities with those of Psiax and other pre-Pioneer painters. He is considered among the foremost of the Pioneer artists, though Gordon Campbell judges him inferior to his contemporaries Euphronios and Euthymides, and Brian A. Sparkes categorises his work as comparatively old-fashioned. Fewer than twenty signed works of his survive, across a variety of pottery styles. As well as a painter, he was a potter: he crafted the uniquely shaped lekythos known as the name-vase of the Painter of the Frankfurt Acorn.