Nikosthenes Painter

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Ten armed hoplites at the gun barrel ; Type B bowl signed by Pamphaios in the Walters Art Museum , around 500 BC Chr.

The Nikosthenes Painter was a Greek vase painter who worked towards the end of the 6th century BC. Chr. In Athens worked.

The Nikosthenes Painter was one of the relatively early red-figure bowl painters . His creative period is around the period 510 to 500 BC. BC, possibly a little earlier. He was quite productive, today he is assigned a three-digit number of vases and vase fragments. The Nikosthenes painter worked in the important Nikosthenes / Pamphaios workshop , in which the innovative potter Nikosthenes initiated various developments and innovations among the ceramists of Kerameikos and was later replaced by the equally capable, but by no means so innovative, pamphaios . The name of the vase painter has not been passed down, which is why John D. Beazley made him distinguishable with an emergency name . Since no further information is known about him, only stylistic investigations led to the recognition of a vase painter personality behind the individual works. Like the black-figure vase painter painter N and BMN painter , he was named after the potter Nikosthenes, who had signed three vases decorated by the Nikosthenes painter, his name vases . However, he decorated works of the pamphae far more often.

Nicosthenic pyxis in Villa Giulia: charioteers on the lid and athletes on the body; around 520 BC Chr.

First and foremost, the Nikosthenes Painter decorated bowls, especially standard eye bowls and palmette eye bowls . Unlike the bowl painters who were previously employed, such as Oltos and Pheidippos or the Bowdoin Eye Painter , he decorated his works exclusively in the red-figure style and not bilingually , i.e. also black-figure. In addition to bowls, which he also painted with friezes instead of the compositions of the eye bowls, as well as type B bowls , other shapes were ascribed to him, such as unusually shaped kantharoi or a unique “Nikosthenische red-figure pyxis” and a pouring bowl with a sieve in front of the spout . The Nikosthenes Painter was an old-fashioned painter who was still strongly attached to the representational conventions of the black-figure style in his way of working. The secondary ornaments also largely corresponded to the old conventions. His figures appear heavy and often poorly proportioned, his style is quite lively and his pictorial themes are often imaginative and often have crude sexual connotations. Even more often, however, he showed scenes from the ideal life of the Greek upper class: warriors, athletes and Dionysian themes. Representations with a mythological reference are rarer. In his best works he achieves the qualitatively better works of his contemporaries.

Research also identified a circle of the Nikosthenes Painter whose works were not painted by himself, but reveal his way of working. He had a great influence on the Naples painter RC 132 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ inventory number 48.2747; Entry in the museum's database
  2. ^ For example: British Museum, inventory number E154; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 127.28; Entry in the database of the Beazley Archive
  3. ^ Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia , inventory number 20749; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 127.30; Entry in the database of the Beazley Archive
  4. ↑ Antikensammlung Berlin , inventory number 2324; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 126.26; Entry in the database of the Beazley Archive
  5. ^ ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research). Retrieved April 4, 2020 .


personal data
SURNAME Nikosthenes Painter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nicosthenes painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek vase painter of the red-figure style
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.