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拍品專文
The Providence Painter was a pupil of the Berlin Painter and was active in his Athenian workshop between 480-460 B.C.
Like his master he primarily decorated smaller vases, in particular Nolan amphorae and lekythoi, showing a predilection for depicting fleeing and pursuing figures, heroic contests and hovering winged Nikai, such as this example where the goddess holds a kithara. This scheme was undoubtedly one of the most used in the Berlin Painter's workshop and several examples have been attributed to both artists, cf. J. H. Oakley, 'Associates and Followers of the Berlin Painter,' in J. Padgett (ed.), The Berlin Painter and his World, Princeton, 2017, pp. 69-72. For a neck-amphora similarly decorated with a flying Nike holding a kithara by the Berlin Painter, cf. Ashmolean Museum inv. no. 1890.30, and for the same motif on a lekythos by the Providence Painter, cf. Beazley Archive no. 9021958.
Like his master he primarily decorated smaller vases, in particular Nolan amphorae and lekythoi, showing a predilection for depicting fleeing and pursuing figures, heroic contests and hovering winged Nikai, such as this example where the goddess holds a kithara. This scheme was undoubtedly one of the most used in the Berlin Painter's workshop and several examples have been attributed to both artists, cf. J. H. Oakley, 'Associates and Followers of the Berlin Painter,' in J. Padgett (ed.), The Berlin Painter and his World, Princeton, 2017, pp. 69-72. For a neck-amphora similarly decorated with a flying Nike holding a kithara by the Berlin Painter, cf. Ashmolean Museum inv. no. 1890.30, and for the same motif on a lekythos by the Providence Painter, cf. Beazley Archive no. 9021958.