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| Keywords: Niobid Painter - Red-Figure Amphora with Musical Scene - Walters 482712 - Side B.jpg 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 between 460 450 BC Classical terracotta cm 44 7 30 3 h x diam accession number 48 2712 15642 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 Museum purchase 1993 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 place of origin Attica Greece Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek red-figure pottery in the Walters Art Museum Niobid Painter Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Maenads in ancient Greek pottery | ||||
