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351 - After Niobid Battle
Niobid

Niobid

Niobid

Niobid

DATE ca. 450 BC
AUTHOR the Niobid painter (active ca. 470 - ca. 445 BC) Greece
MATERIAL Ceramic - Attic red figure calyx krater
SIZE 54 cm tall
LOCATION France - Paris - Musée du Louvre
NOTES Found in Orvieto, Italy.

Side A: Apollo and Artemis slay the sons and daughters of the boastful queen Niobe with their arrows. The god wears a wreath of laurel upon his head, and the goddess a sakkos scarf. Both draw bows and wear quivers slung across their shoulders. Side B: Heracles wearing a laurel wreath with Athena and the Argonauts.

On this krater, the figures are disposed on several levels, ad they actively interact with their setting. The Niobid Painter also drew his face in a three-quarter view, something that even Euphronios and Euthymides had not attempted.

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