Nikoxenos Painter
belly amphora circa 500 BC; Munich: Staatliche Antikensammlungen
.The Nikoxenos Painter (
red-figure
styles. He was active in the end of the sixth and the beginning of the fifth centuries BC. His real name is not known.
He was one of the few painters to work, apparently by his own choice, in both major styles. He painted black-figure
kalpidai with continuous profile were already in the tradition of the new style. His black-figure work is considered better than his red-figure. The Eucharides Painter
was his pupil; according to some theories they were actually identical.
Bibliography
- John Beazley: Attic Black-figure Vase-painters. Oxford 1956, p.
- ISBN 3-8053-0233-9, p. 124f.
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