Greek Art and Archaeology
Lecture 13: Black and Red
Figure Pottery
EPC skyphos, ~700 (19
cm) (BM 64.4-4.18)
MPC oenochoe, The Chigi
Vase, ~650 (Rome, Villa
Giulia) (26.2 cm; height of
frieze, 5.2 cm)
Nessos Amphora,
Athens, late VII, 1.23
m (Athens NM 1002)
Belly of Polyphemus
amphora
Attic Black-figure Dinos by Sophilos, The Funeral Games of Patroklos, ~ 580
(NM15499), ~8 cm
Dinos and stand by Sophilos, Marriage of
Peleus and Thetis, 0.71 m (BM 1971.11-1.1),
~580 (Biers plate 12)
François Vase,
Volute Krater by
Kleitios and
Ergotimos, found in
Chiusi (Italy), ~ 570
(Florence Museo
Archeologico 4209),
0.66 m (Biers 18183)
François Vase, details of
Calydonian boar hunt and
Athenians’ boat
Lydos, Theseus Fights the Minotaur, ~550 (BM B 148) 0.32 m
Exekias, Achilles and Ajax Playing a Game, detail from a belly amphora, ~540-530
(Vatican 344)
Exekias, cup. Dionysius
crossing the sea, ~ 535
(Munich,
Antikensammlung 2044),
11.5 cm
Amasis Painter, ~550-525, Neck amphora, Dionysus
and maenads (Paris, Cabinet des Médailles 222),
0.33 m; Belly amphora, Dionysos and satyrs at
vintage (Basel, Antikenmuseum Kä 420) ~0.40 m
(Biers 184)
Panathenaic amphora, Kuban group, Athena with shield device of Tyrant Slayers, end
of 5th century(BM 1903.2-17.1) , 0.57 m. Panathenaic amphora, attributed to the
Euphiletos Painter, ~530 (Met 14.130.12) 62.23 cm
The Relief Line/Eighth-inch Line
Top: Fragment of a Red-figure
Stamnos Attributed to the Late
Manner of the Berlin Painter, ~
470-460, 13.3 cm wide.
Belly amphora by the Andocides Painter, Ajax and Achilles play, 520s (Boston
01.8037), ~0.50 m (cf Biers pl 13)
Calyx-krater,
~ 515, signed
by Euxitheos
as potter,
Euphronios
as painter,
0.46 m
(Met
1972.11.10):
body of
Sarpedon
lifted by
Sleep and
Death (cf
Biers 185)
Red-Figure Psykter with Feasting
Hetaerae by Euphronios, ~500
(Hermitage 644), 0.34 m
L: Belly amphora, name vase of the Berlin
Painter, ~500 (Berlin staatliche Museen
2160) (cf Biers 186-87)
R: Belly amphora, attributed to the Berlin
Painter, ~490 (Met 56.171.38), 0.42 m
Symposium scene.
Red-figure cup attr to
the Brygos Painter,
480s (BM GR 1848.619.7), 0.32 m (height
of cup); Sappho on a
Kalathos, ~470
(Munich 2416), 0.52 m
(cf Biers 187)
Cup by the Cleophrades Painter, Ilioupersis, ~ 480
(Stockholm, National Museum A 1701). Details of a
Dionysiac Revel, Pointed Amphora by the
Cleophrades Painter, ~480 (Munich
Antikensammlung 2344) (height of vessel 0.56 m)
Cup signed by Douris: voting for
Ajax’s armor, ~490 (Vienna,
Kunsthistorisches Museum, 3695)
Pelike by the Pan Painter:
Heracles and Bousiris, ~470
(Athens NM 9683)
L: Cup attr to the Penthesilea Painter, mid V (Ferrara, Museo Archaeologico Nazionale
di Spina T212BVP) (cf Biers 238)
R: Kalyx Krater, Niobid Painter name vase, mid V (Louvre G341) (Biers 239)
Achilles Slaying Penthesileia: Exekias, ~530; Berlin
Painter, ~490, Penthesileia Painter, ~460s (Biers 238)
Epinetron by the Eretria Painter, ~425 (NM 1629): Alkestis among her friends, Harmonia,
Eros, Hebe and Aphrodite; around the plastic protome at the edge, Peleus and Thetis,
0.29 m
L: Attic Red-Figure
Pelike from the Group
of Polygnotos 23,9 cm
R: Achilles Painter
Name Vase, ~450
(Vatican 16571), 0.62
m
(Biers 239-40)
White-ground lekythos; the Achilles Painter, Farewell to a
Warrior, 450-440 (NM 1818), ~0.40 m (Biers plate 11)
Hydria by the Meidias Painter, Firenze,
Museo Archeologico Nazionale 81947
(Biers, pl 15, 240-41)
The Return of the Drunken Hephaestus,
Pelike attributed to the Cleophon Painter,
~430 (Munich, Antikensammlungen
2361)
Hellenistic
molded bowl,
West Slope
ware, stemmed
blackware
L: Judgement of Paris;
Pelike in Kerch Style,
attributed to the Painter of
the Wedding Procession
330 - 320 B.C. (Getty
83.AE.10) (cf Biers 279)