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Asteas was the most important of the vase-painters working at Paestum in South Italy. The principal artist of a large workshop, he may have invented the free-standing half-palmettes, used to frame an image, that became characteristic of Paestan vase-painting. Asteas decorated hydriai and kraters, as well as some smaller vases, in the red-figure technique. Asteas was one of only two South Italian vase-painters to sign his work. He also used inscriptions to label figures in his scenes, a practice that had become uncommon by the middle of the fourth century B.C. Asteas painted scenes of myth and theater and groups of two or three draped youths, as well as the ever-popular Dionysiac scenes.
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Greek (Paestan), active about 350 - 320 B.C.