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Heracles and Geryon on an Attic black-figured amphora with a thick layer of transparent gloss, c. 540 BC, now in the Munich State Collection of Antiquities.. Black-figure pottery painting (also known as black-figure style or black-figure ceramic; Ancient Greek: μελανόμορφα, romanized: melanómorpha) is one of the styles of painting on antique Greek vases.
The pottery produced in Archaic and Classical Greece included at first black-figure pottery, yet other styles emerged such as red-figure pottery and the white ground technique. Styles such as West Slope Ware were characteristic of the subsequent Hellenistic period, which saw vase painting's decline.
Etruscan black-figure hydria, early 5th century BC. The local production of Etruscan vases probably began in the 7th century BC. Initially, the vases followed examples of black-figure vase painting from Corinth and East Greece. It is assumed that in the earliest phase, vases were produced mainly by immigrants from Greece.
This black-figure amphora, painted by the potter Nikosthenes, displays a Grecian boxing scene similar to the one depicted on the Boeotian Dancers Group's Kothon, Black Figure Tripod. Decorating the third leg of the tripod are two men facing each other with their arms raised in a fighting position, suggesting they are engaged in the athletic ...
The amphora is a piece of black-figure pottery, deriving from the region of Attica, which is located in Mainland Greece to the south of Boeotia, with Athens as its capital. The work is now stored in the Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon under the inventory number E 581-c, in the department of antiquities. It was a donation of Joseph Gillet in 1923.
Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters, Oxford 1971, p. 72. Kutalmış Görkay: "Attic Black-Figure Pottery from Daskyleion, in: Studien zum antiken Kleinasien IV, Asia Minor Studien 34, Bonn 1999, Pl. 5, 47. Rolf Blatter: Sokles, in: Künstlerlexikon der Antike Vol. 2, 2004, p. 404.