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Nettos Painter
( fl c. 620–c. 600 BC). Greek vase painter. The Nettos Painter is named from the Attic spelling of the Centaur Nessos, who is depicted in the episode of Herakles Slaying Nessos on the neck of the splendid Attic Black-figure neck amphora, the artist’s masterpiece (see GREECE, ANCIENT, fig. 95). He is the earliest Attic Black-figure vase painter to have left sufficient vases (about 30) for it to be possible to chart his chronology and to interpret his artistic personality. Most of these vases were found in Attica, where they served as grave markers or tomb furnishings. Four vases formerly ascribed to the Chimaera Painter were recognized by Beazley as examples of his early work.
Part of the Vase painters family
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