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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.
Black-figure side of the amphora. Red-figure side of the amphora. The Belly Amphora in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen at Munich (inventory number 2301) is one of the most famous works by the Andokides Painter. The vase measures 53.5 cm high and 22.5 cm in diameter. It dates to between 520 and 510 BC and was discovered at Vulci.
Procession of men, kylix by the Triptolemos Painter, circa 480 BC. Paris: Louvre The wedding of Thetis, pyxis by the Wedding Painter, circa 470/460 BC. Paris: Louvre. Red-figure pottery (Ancient Greek: ἐρυθρόμορφα, romanized: erythrómorpha) is a style of ancient Greek pottery in which the background of the pottery is painted black while the figures and details are left in the ...
Some pottery vases were probably intended as cheaper substitutes for these, either for use or to be placed as grave goods. Some terms, especially among the types of kylix or drinking cup, combine a shape and a type or location of decoration, as in the band cup , eye cup and others.
Early produce is described as pseudo-red-figure Etruscan vase painting, due to its differing technique. Only by the end of the 5th century was the true red-figure technique introduced to Etruria. For both pseudo- and true red-figure, numerous painters, workshops and production centres have been recognised.
A misfired red-figure vessel: insufficient reduction or too-low firing temperature caused slip to seal insufficiently and thus reoxidise (return to red), in 3rd phase; compare (at bottom left) vase with "correct" black. Smaller clay particles and a high calcium content lower the sintering point. [3]
Side A (red-figure) of an Attic bilingual amphora, 520–510 BC, painted by Andokides. Andokides (/ ˌ æ n d oʊ ˈ s aɪ d iː z /; [1] Greek: Ἀνδοκίδης) was a famous potter of Ancient Greece. The painter of his pots was an anonymous artist, the Andokides painter, who is recognized as the creator of the red-figure style
It is likely, however, that he also worked in black-figure painting, [3] and his style suggests a link, possibly in the role of student, to the great black-figure painter Exekias. [4] John Boardman sees connections to Ionian art in the painter's work, suggesting that he may have been an immigrant from East Greece. [ 3 ]