Niobid painter
The niobid painter (active in Athens in the 2nd quarter of the 5th century BC ) was a Greek vase painter of the so-called Attic red-figure style whose name is unknown today . It got its emergency name after the goblet crater G 341 he painted in the Louvre in Paris , on the back of which the killing of the Niobids (children of Niobe ) by Apollo and Artemis is depicted. The niobid painter probably oriented himself towards monumental painting, whose influences he masterfully implemented in his art. He adopted the completely new form of staggering figures for vase painting, which is characterized by shifted terrain levels, the three-quarter view and the carefully worked out faces. He thus paved the way for some epoch-making innovations within vase painting. John D. Beazley attributes 116 vases to him, half of which have only survived in fragments.
Selected Works
- Baltimore, Walters Art Museum
- Amphora 48.2712
- Bologna, Museo Civico
- Volute crater 268 • Volute crater 269
- Boston, Museum of Fine Arts
- Hydria 90.156 • volute crater 33.56 • calyx crater 1972.850
- Brunswick (Maine) , Bowdoin College Museum of Art
- Hydria 1908.3
- Chicago, Art Institute
- Bell crater 1922.2197
- Chicago, University of Chicago
- Fragment 1967.60 • Fragment 1967.115
- Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum
- Volute crater
- Ferrara, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
- Cup crater T 313 • Hydria T 325 • Volute crater T 740 • Cup crater T 936
- London, British Museum
- Hydria E 190 • Cup crater E 467
- Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum
- Hydria
- Munich, Glyptothek and Antikensammlung
- Neck amphora 2324
- Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
- Volute crater 2421
- New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Neck amphora 99.13.2
- Oxford (Mississippi), Mississippi University Museums
- Hydria 1977.3.88
- Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
- Neck amphora 280
- Palermo, Museo Nazionale Archeologico
- Volute crater G 1283
- Paris, Musee National du Louvre
- St. Petersburg, Hermitage
- Hydria • Panathenaic amphora
- Tübingen, University, Antiquities Collection of the Archaeological Institute
- Bell crater E 104
- Vatican, Musei Vaticani
- Neck amphora
- Würzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum
- Pelike L 511
literature
- John D. Beazley : Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd edition, Oxford 1963
- Mathias Prange : The niobid painter and his workshop. Investigations into a vase workshop from the early classical period. Frankfurt / M., Bern, New York, Paris 1989
Web links
- Literature by and about Niobid painters in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Niobid painter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek vase painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr. |