The Niobid Painter in Athens [videorecording] / [lecture by] J. Michael Padgett.

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The Niobid Painter in Athens [videorecording] / [lecture by] J. Michael Padgett.

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Lecturer J. Michael Padgett, curator of ancient art at the Princeton University Art Museum, explores the vases painted by the so-called "Niobid Painter," paying special attention to the volute krater from the Museo Archeologico in Agrigento, Sicily, on view at the Getty Villa in 2010. In the early fifth century B.C., Athenian vase painters began decorating large wine vessels with mythological battle scenes of unprecedented grandeur and sophistication. Foremost of these was the Niobid Painter, whose red-figured portrayals of Greeks fighting amazons, centaurs, and Trojans have been considered reflections of larger paintings by contemporary muralists and generally symbolic of Athenian leadership against Persia.

1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (ca. 80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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