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Niobid Painter: Red-Figure Amphora with Musical Scene   (  )
Artist	Niobid Painter  (–470––445)     Description Greek ceramic artist Date of birth/death circa 470 BC date QS:P,-0470-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902   circa 445 BC Work location Athens  Authority file : Q1712133 VIAF: 40174454 ISNI: 0000000013905301 ULAN: 500000151 LCCN: n92046818 GND: 118786318 WorldCat artist QS:P170,Q1712133
Title	Red-Figure Amphora with Musical Scene
Description	English: One of the prominent painters of classical Athens, the Niobid Painter (named after his most famous vase) is admired for his quiet and balanced compositions. Here, in the women's quarters of a house, three elaborately dressed women prepare for a music session. A seated woman relaxes while fingering a "barbiton" (a stringed instrument). Above her head hangs a lyre. She faces a woman holding double flutes, and a third woman lifts the lid of a box. The scene evokes the leisured and relatively educated world of affluent Athenian women. On the back, women dressed in the attire of maenads, the female followers of Dionysus, hold pine branches and a torch; these may be the same women, now preparing for their ritual roles in Dionysus' cult.
Date	between 460 and 450 BC (Classical)
Medium	terracotta medium QS:P186,Q60424
Dimensions	height: 44.7 cm (17.5 in); width: 30.3 cm (11.9 in) dimensions QS:P2048,44.7U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,30.3U174728 (h. x diam.)
Collection	Walters Art Museum    Native name Walters Art Museum Location Baltimore, United States of America Coordinates 39° 17′ 48″ N, 76° 36′ 58″ W   Established 1934  Website thewalters.org Authority file : Q210081 VIAF: 128918374 ISNI: 000000040373611X ULAN: 500279110 LCCN: no00096900 GND: 16029354-6 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number	48.2712
Place of creation	Attica, Greece
Object history	Raymond Duncan (1874-1966) [brother of Isadora Duncan] Dorée Duncan Seligmann [granddaughter of Raymond Duncan], by inheritance Robert E. Hecht, Jr., New York, 1961 [mode of acquisition unknown] Walters Art Museum, 1993, by purchase
Exhibition history	Pandora's Box: Women in Classical Greece. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, Basel. 1995-1996. Highlights from the Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1998-2001.
Credit line	Museum purchase, 1993
Source	Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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