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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 Andokides workshop began the production of red-figure pottery around 530 BC. Gradually, the new red-figure technique began to replace the older black-figure style. Euphronios was to become one of the most important representatives of early red-figure vase painting in Athens. Together with a few other contemporary young painters, modern ...
Euphronios was a part of the Pioneer Group, and was known to be a major component in the transition from black-figure to red-figure pottery in Ancient Greece. [9] His use of red-figure on this krater allowed him to add an increasing amount of detail to the figures and scenes he depicted, like the textures of Herakles' club and lion skin. [10] [11]
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 ...
63.11.6 red-figure belly amphora with black-figure lip Front: fight over the tripod, back: Dionysos with kantharos between maenad and satyr (Lip: Psiax, main images: Andokides Painter) Odessa, Archaeological Museum; 266602 red-figure alabastron (signed; potter: Hilinos) Philadelphia, University Museum; 5349 red-figure belly amphora (potter: Menon)
By the end of the Archaic period the styles of black-figure pottery, red-figure pottery and the white ground technique had become fully established and would continue in use during the era of Classical Greece, from the early 5th to late 4th centuries BC. Corinth was eclipsed by Athenian trends since Athens was the progenitor of both the red ...
Exekias worked mainly in the black-figure technique, which involved the painting of scenes using a clay slip that fired to black, with details created through incision. Exekias is regarded by art historians as an artistic visionary whose masterful use of incision and psychologically sensitive compositions mark him as one of the greatest of all ...
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 ]