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
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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
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Attic cup depicting potter, c. 490 BC
Image Source Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-phase_firing
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Black Figure and Red Figure pottery
three stage firing:
1. Oxidisation
2. Reduction
3. Re-oxidisation
Joining sherds from the Areopagus, Athens
c. 800
Test pieces?
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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 Page: http://www.kunstbus.com/locate/kithara
Image source: ArtStor
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 Protoa9c EPA c. 700-­‐675 Middle Protoa9c MPA c. 675-­‐650 Late Protoa9c 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
Euphiletos Painter, c. 530
Image Source Page: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/07.286.79
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”
Image Source Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Signature_Amasis_Louvre_F30.jpg
Image Source Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Signature_Exekias_Staatliche_Antikensammlungen_2044.jpg
“Exekias (m)epoese”
NB another version is “megrapsen”
ie “painted me”
Image Source Page: http://www.kunstbus.com/locate/kithara
“Kitharode”
“Hermes and Satyr”
Berlin Painter (c. 490-60)
(n.b. J. D. Beazley)
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http://195.176.180.15:82/medina/courses/cm0910/group4/pages/poc.php?
ID_POC=41&ID_Lang=1
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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)
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Agora potty