Nicias painter
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Bell crater with the sacrificial scene on an altar; Metropolitan Museum of Art (41.162.4)
The Nikias Painter was an Attic-Greek vase painter of the red-figure style . His creative period dates from around 420 to 400 BC. Dated. It got its emergency name after a bell crater signed by the potter Nikias in the British Museum London, Inv. 1898.7-16.6. He mainly painted bell craters .
literature
- John D. Beazley : Attic Red-figure Vase-Painters , Oxford 1963, pp. 1333-1335.
- John H. Oakley: A calyx-krater in Virginia by the Nikias Painter with the birth of Erichthonios , in Antike Kunst 30 (1987) pp. 123-130.
- John Boardman : Red-Figure Vases from Athens. The classical time (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 48). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1991, ISBN 3-8053-1262-8 , p. 174.
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| SURNAME | Nicias painter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek vase painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr. |