Niobe's vase painter - an anonymous Greek vase painter, worked in Athens using the red-figure vase painting technique.
His registered vase is a crater, which is now exhibited in the Louvre, Paris. On one side of it is the god Apollo and his sister Artemis, who kill the children of Niobe . There are different versions regarding whose figures are depicted on the side of B. Nevertheless, it is generally accepted that these are either Argonauts or Seven against Thebes , although in one version there is no certainty.
Researchers believe that the technique of the vase painter Nioba was significantly influenced by the work of the vase painter Polygnot from the island of Thassos, as well as the frescoes of Mikon Athens, which decorated the walls of Stoa Pikile.
Links
- John D. Beazley : Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2. Auflage, Oxford 1963
- Mathias Prange: Der Niobidenmaler und seine Werkstatt. Untersuchungen zu einer Vasenwerkstatt frühklassischer Zeit. Frankfurt / M., Bern, New York, Paris 1989