Niobid Painter

The Niobid painters ( active in the second quarter of the 5th century BC in Athens ) was a Greek vase painter unknown today especially the so-called Attic red-figured style. He received his Notnamen after painted by him calyx crater G 341 Louvre in Paris, on the back of the slaughter of Niobe (children of Niobe ) by Apollo and Artemis is shown. The Niobid painter oriented presumably at the monumental painting whose influences he implemented masterfully in his art. He took over for the vase painting completely new form of staggering figure, which is characterized by the shifted terrain levels, the three-quarter view and the carefully crafted faces. He was a pioneer for some epochal innovation within the vase painting. John D. Beazley attributes to him 116 vases, half of which are preserved only in fragments.

Selected Works

• Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

• Bologna, Museo Civico

• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts

• Brunswick (Maine ) Bowdoin College Museum of Art

• Chicago, Art Institute

• Chicago, University of Chicago

• Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum

• Ferrara, Museo Archeologico Nazionale

• Rijksmuseum suffering

• London, British Museum

• Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum

• Munich, Glyptothek and antique collection

• Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale

• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Oxford ( Mississippi), Mississippi University Museum

• Oxford, Ashmolean Museum

• Palermo, Museo Archeologico Nazionale

• Paris, Musée National du Louvre

• St. Petersburg, Hermitage Museum

• Tübingen, University, antique collection of the Archaeological Institute

• Vatican City, Vatican Museums

• Würzburg, Martin-von -Wagner- Museum