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Vase Painting in Classical Athens Myth meets Life: Vase Painting in Classical Athens . Gillian Shepherd Athenian black-figure amphora Attributed to Exekias, c. 530 BC Image source: ArtStor Photo © Gillian Shepherd Athenian vase shapes Image Source Page: http://tagdesignstudios.com/Teach/italhistfinal/greek-statuary/greek-statuary-Pages/Image0.html Image Source Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-phase_firing Clay extraction Corinthian black figure pinax, side A, c. 575-50 This image is not available for copyright reasons Attic cup depicting potter, c. 490 BC Image Source Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-phase_firing Black Figure and Red Figure pottery three stage firing: 1. Oxidisation 2. Reduction Image source: ArtStor 3. Re-oxidisation Joining sherds from the Areopagus, Athens c. 800 Test pieces? Image Source Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-phase_firing Misfired black figure vase Image Source Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-phase_firing Image Source Page: http://www.utexas.edu/courses/introtogreece/lect10/img5dipylnamph.html Late Geometric Dipylon Vase Image source: ArtStor Image Source Page: http://www.kunstbus.com/locate/kithara Black Figure Red Figure Periodisation of Athenian Pottery Styles Style Abbrevia-on Absolute da-ng Late Geometric I LG I c. 750-25 BC Late Geometric II LG II c. 725-700 Early Protoac EPA c. 700-675 Middle Protoac MPA c. 675-650 Late Protoac LPA c. 650-625 Black Figure BF c. 625-530 (Early) Red Figure RF c. 530-500 Red Figure RF 5th- 4th cents BC Image Source Page: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/14.130.12 Image Source Page: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/07.286.79 Euphiletos Painter, c. 530 Kleophrades Painter, c. 525-500 Panathenaic amphorae (Panathenaic Games) Image Source Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Detail_Amasis_Painter_Cdm_Paris_222.jpg Poseidon (detail of amphora, side A), Amasis Painter, c. 550-30 “Amasis mepoiesen” NB another version is “megrapsen” Image Source Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Signature_Amasis_Louvre_F30.jpg ie “painted me” Image Source Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Signature_Exekias_Staatliche_Antikensammlungen_2044.jpg “Exekias (m)epoese” Image Source Page: http://www.kunstbus.com/locate/kithara “Kitharode” “Hermes and Satyr” Image Source Page: http://195.176.180.15:82/medina/courses/cm0910/group4/pages/poc.php? Berlin Painter (c. 490-60) ID_POC=41&ID_Lang=1 (n.b. J. D. Beazley) Image Source Page: http://classconnection.s3.amazonaws.com/211/flashcards/2133211/png/bronze13184260181911350626129046.png Berlin Foundry Cup Foundry Painter Red figure kylix, c. 490 Black figure hydria Women at a fountain house Class of Hamberg 1917.477 c. 510-500 Image Source Page: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/06.1021.77 Image Source Page: http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/K8.6.html Attic red-figure stamnos Berlin Painter c. 490-80 Athena with Achilles(?) and Hektor(?) Hoplite battle Black figure amphora Lysippides Painter, c. 530 NB a hoplite usually had to pay for his own panoply, ie hoplite status was a sign of wealth as well as citizenship Image Source Page: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/56.171.14 Chigi Vase (c. 640) Image Source Page: http://www.trentu.ca/faculty/rfitzsimons/AHCL2200Y/LE%2007-03.htm Image Source Page: http://www.oneonta.edu/faculty/farberas/ARTH/ARTH209/Orientalizing_Vases.html Image Source Page: http://dustinsimmons.blogspot.com/2011/11/greek-sweat-and-persian-blood-battle-of.html Departure of a Warrior Achilles Painter Red figure stamnos, c. 450 BC Image Source Page: http://www.students.sbc.edu/mdavis04/Greek%20Painted%20Vases.htm Image Source Page: http://www.classics.uga.edu/for_faculty/clas1020/images/siege_of_troy2.htm Arming of Hector with Priam and Hecuba Red figure amphora Euthymides, c. 510 Hetairai [courtesans] we keep for pleasure, pallakai [whores] for attendance upon our person, but gynaikai [wives] for the procreation of legitimate children and to be the faithful guardians of our households. Demosthenes, Against Neaira 59.122 Athenian white- ground lekythos, Villa Guilia Painter c. 450 BC Image source: www.photobank.com Images Source Page: http://carlos.emory.edu/COLLECTION/CLASSIC/classic08.html NB: Symposion Hetairai Kottabos Red figure kylix (tondo) Brygos Painter c. 470 Image source page: http://www.utexas.edu/courses/classicalarch/images3/brygostondo.jpg Warning: The next slide has explicit sexual content Red figure oinochoe Shuvalov Painter c. 430 Image Source Page: http://www.thefullwiki.org/Red_figure_pottery Athenian white ground cup (red-figure image on white ground c. 460 BC) Image Source Page: http://www.greekshops.com/newsletters_archive/May_2011/ Image Source Page: http://teachingcompany.12.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=1904 Image Source Page: http://www.greekshops.com/newsletters_archive/May_2011/ Agora potty .
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