Painter of the Nicosia-Olpe

Painter of the Nicosia-Olpe also painter of the Olpe of Nicosia is the emergency name of an Attic vase painter in the late phase of black-figure vase painting .

The painter of Nicosia-Olpe was in the late 6th century BC. Active. He is close to the ghost painter and, like him, particularly likes to decorate lekyths of the Sub-Deianeira form and shoulder lekyths and bowls . His type B bowls belong to the late work and date from around 500 BC. He decorates his bowls with a black stripe over the handle zone, which corresponds to the decoration scheme of ribbon bowls , but his type B bowls had a different profile.

literature

John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1956.
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. 118.

personal data
SURNAME	Painter of the Nicosia-Olpe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Painter of the Olpe of Nicosia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Attic vase painter of the black-figure style
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	after 500 BC Chr.