BMN Painter

The BMN Painter was an Attic vase painter in the black-figure style, active during the third quarter of the 6th century BC. Initially, the BMN painter worked for the potter Lydos. Of the collabrotaion between the two, a Band cup and a belly amphora are known. John Boardman sees the BMN painter as both the earliest and the best vase painters to collaborate with the important potter Nikosthenes. The earliest works by them are a Siana cup and several Little-master cups, including a lip cup signed by Nikosthenes. The BMN Painter was the most significant representative of the Bellerophontes Class. He probably painted the majority of works by that grouping, including the name vase, depicting Bellerophontes fightinh the chimaira. The abbreviation BMN that provides his covnetional name stands for British Museum and Nikosthenesand refers to his name vase, inventory B 295 in that museum.

Bibliography

John Beazley: Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1956, p.
John Boardman: Schwarzfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Ein Handbuch, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9, p. 72

Ancient Greek vase painters

Geometric

Dipylon Master

Orientalizing

Black-figure

Comast Group	KX Painter KY Painter

Group E	Exekias

Gorgoneion Group	Cavalcade Painter

Leagros Group	Acheloos Painter Chiusi Painter

Little Masters	Group of Rhodes 12264

Red-figure

Pioneer Group	Epiktetos Euphronios Euthymides Oltos Phintias Smikros

Mannerists	Pan Painter

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 95691915 ULAN: 500001886

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