Painter N

Battle of the Amazons , Nikosthenian amphora, around 520/10 BC Chr., Louvre F 111

The painter N was a provisional names designated Attic vase painter of the black-figure style v of the third quarter of the 6th century. Chr.

The painter N got his name after the potter Nikosthenes , in whose workshop he worked and for whom he was one of the most important employees. As far as we know today, the painter N appears to have painted all the Nikosthenian amphorae . He also decorated several kyathoi , bowls and a psykter . Some researchers assume that the painter N could be identical to the potter Nikosthenes.

A woman and a dog on the neck of a Nicosthenian amphora, around 520/10 BC. Chr., Louvre (F 114)

Most of the vases decorated by the painter N are dated to the 30s and 20s of the 6th century BC. Above all, the larger figures show greater qualities, the smaller ones John Boardman simply describes as boring and sometimes fleeting and not far from goods from mass production. His plant ornaments are particularly bad.

The red-figure vases from Nikosthenes' workshop were mainly painted by the so-called Nikosthenes painter .

literature

John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters , Oxford 1956, pp. 216-224.
John Boardman : Black-Figure Vases from Athens. A handbook (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 1). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9 , p. 73.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Painter N
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Attic vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.