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{{Short description|4th-century BC Greek (Paestan) Vase painter}}
[[Image:Madrid Krater Asteas MAN Inv11094.jpg|thumb|The madness of [[Heracles]], side A from the Madrid Krater signed by Asteas, [[National Archaeological Museum of Spain]]]]

'''Asteas''' (active between 350 and 320 BC in [[Paestum]], Southern Italy) was one of the more active [[Ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] vase painters in [[Magna Graecia]], practicing the [[red-figure]] style. He managed a large workshop, in which above all [[hydria]]i and [[krater]]s were painted. He painted mostly mythological and theatrical scenes. He is one of the few vase painters of the Greek colonies whose name comes down to us.

==Selected works==
*'''Berlin, Antikensammlung'''
:Calyx krater F 3044 [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0043&query=Berlin%20F%203044]
*'''Kassel, Staatliche Museen'''
:Skyphos
*'''Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum'''
:Calyx krater 81.AE.78 ''(2006 als Fund aus einer Raubgrabung an Italien zurückgegeben)'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0043&query=Malibu%2081.AE.78]
*'''Paris, Musée National du Louvre'''
:Lekanis K 570 [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0043&query=Louvre%20K%20570]
*'''Tampa, Tampa Museum of Art'''
:Hydria 89.98 [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0043&query=Tampa%2089.98]

==References==
{{Commons category|Asteas}}
* [[Arthur Dale Trendall]]. ''The red-figured vases of Paestum''. Rome: British School, 1987.
* Erika Simon. Ein neuer signierter Kelchkrater des Asteas. In: ''Numismatica e antichità classiche. Quaderni ticinesi'' 31 (2002) 115-127.
* Erika Simon. The Paestan painter Asteas. In: ''Greek vases. Images, contexts and controversies. Proceedings of the conference sponsored by the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia University, 23–24 March 2002'' (Leiden 2004), p.&nbsp;113-122.

{{Greek vase painters}}

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