Tiverios elliniki techni museum.
Attic red figure hydria.
High quality attic black figure vases have a uniform glossy pitch black coating and the color.
Attic red figure meidias painter s name vase view larger image view larger image photographs.
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Red figure pottery grew in popularity and by the early 5th century bce it had all but replaced black figure pottery as the predominant pottery type in athens.
Beazley attic black figure vase painters oxford 1956 254 257.
Figure 1 attic red figure hydria attributed to the meidias painter 420 400 bc trustees of the british museum london.
Attic pottery was exported to magna graecia and even etruria the preference for attic vases led to the development of local south italian and etrurian workshops or schools strongly influenced by attic style but producing exclusively for local markets.
Hydria signed on the shoulder by meidias as maker function.
Beth harris and dr.
Hydria of kalpis type rounded shoulder function.
The kleophrades painter decorated the angular form of hydria but he later switched to the kalpis.
Red figure with purple white.
With over 20 000 extant pieces attic black figure vases comprise the largest and at the same time most significant vase collection second only to attic red figure vases.
The style is characterized by drawn red figures and a painted black background.
On this athenian red figure kalpis a tree bends over herakles and the lion indicating that the action takes place outdoors.
Attic potters benefitted from the excellent iron rich clay found in attica.
In the 5th century attic fine pottery now predominantly red figure maintained its dominance in the markets.
460 50 b c e 54 x 56 cm musée du louvre speakers.
London british museum size.
The striking meander decoration around the rim of the hydria appears in other works attributed to or in the manner of the lysippides painter for example a krater f306 in the musee du louvre paris.
Aeneas flees with his father anchises on his back and his son askanios leading the way.
The three handles of the shape facilitated pouring and lifting.
The cultural history of artefacts is a rewarding field of enquiry for understanding the many different ways that certain objects have been seen and valued in the past.
Expansive style with emotionally charged single figures and groups subject s.
Beazley archive pottery.
Red figure pottery is a style of greek vase painting that was invented in athens around 530 bce.
Sack of troy encircles the shoulder.
Naples museo nazionale archeologico size.
From handle left to right.
The last recorded examples of attic red figure pottery are.
Niobid painter niobid krater attic red figure calyx krater c.