Ancient Pots

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Ancient Pots

• Archaic into Classical

2
Shapes

• Amphora
• Panathenaic Amphora
• Lekythos
• Pelike
• Volute Krater

• Hydria
• Psykter
• Epinetron
• Kylix
• Eye Cups

3
Technique

• Black Figure
• silhouette
• incised detail
• added red, white, purple paint
• earlier

• Red-Figure
• I/8 line
• painted detail
• various brushes
• not paint but thick slip

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Francois Vase

• Florence, Arch. Mus
• .66 m high
• 570 BCE
• volute krater
• Kleitias, painter Ergotimos, potter
• Myths Kalydonian boar hunt, funeral games for
  Patroklos, marriage of Peleus and Thetis, ambush
  of Troilus.

5
Obverse Side

• Arrival of Athenians and Theseus from Crete
• Centauromachy
• Marriage of Peleus and Thetis, continued.
• Return of Hephaistos to Mt. Olympos.

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Amasis Painter

• Dionysos and the Maenads
• .33 m high
• 540 - 530 BCE
• Master of incision

7
Athena and Poseidon

• Use of verticals for design
• Incorporation of inscription
• Alludes to struggle for Athens

8
Exekias Painter

• Penthesilea and Achilles, Dice-playing, Dionysos
  on the sea, Ajax
• Pensive moments, private moments, intimacy
• 540 - 530 BCE

9
Andokides Painter

• Pioneers
• First bilingual (one side black figure, one side
  red figure)
• Fine lines
• Inventor of red figure

10
Andokides Vases

• Achilles feasting
• Apollo and Herakles struggle for the tripod
• Herakles with Cerberus

11
Euphronios

• Known as potter and painter
• Struggles with twisting of body
• Fine representations of muscles, sinew
• Emotional impact
• Careful composition
• Herakles and Antaios
• Sarpedon Krater

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Euthymides

• Not even Euphronios this.
• Revelers.
• 510 BCE

13
Berlin Painter

• 490 BCE
• Fine detail, stylized, idealized
• Single figures on a plain black expanse
• No groundline
• Pairs of figures carefully overlapping

14
Brygos Painter

• Crowded, busy scenes with much overlap
• Thematic unity
• Appropriate for the shape of the cup
• Aristocratic concerns
• Sack of Troy
• Drunken revelers

15
Niobid Painter

• 470 - 460 BCE
• Influence of mural wall painter
• Themes that need multiple groundlines
• Punishment of Niobe by Artemis and Apollo

16
Achilles painter

• 440 BCE
• Contraposto pose of Achilles
• Like Berlin painter but with groundline
• Painters have caught up with sculptors.

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White ground technique

• 1st half of the fifth century
• Its failure in the late 6th century led to red
  figure technique
• Usually funerary lekythos
• But there are kraters, pyxides, and amphorae
• Use of subtle shading, like a canvas