Nausicaa Painter
Attic red-figure vase painter, active around 460 to 450 BC
The Nausicaa Painter (also spelled Nausikaa Painter) was an ancient Greek red figure vase painter active in Athens during the second half of the 5th century BC. He belonged to the Later Mannerist school of vase-painters. Art historian John Beazley categorised the vase painter within the "NH Group", a group of seven early painters in the Later Mannerist school, named after the Nausicaa and Hephaistos Painters. The painter's name vase is a neck amphora in the Munich Antikensammlung showing Odysseus and Nausicaa. One of his vases is signed "Polygnotus", being one of three Athenian vase painters with this name.
The shape of his neck amphorae, with distinctive twisted handles, echo those of the Niobid Painter. This influence is confirmed in an oinochoe from the Berlin Antikensammlung, F 2408, which copies the ornaments on jugs by the Niobid Painter.
Style
Figures depicted by the Nausicaa Painter typically have elongated fingers, heavy lips, with a nose and brow formed by a singular, elongated line. The feet of figures by the Nausicaa Painter are usually large and triangular, with tear-shaped ankles, thin and flat toes. The Nausicaa Painter's vases often have a frontal figure in between two other figures in profile, and depict males shown in three-quarter view from behind.
Work
Neck amphora with Odysseus and Nausicaa, Munich, 2322.
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