Transcript The Art of Ancient Greece

Greek Vase Painting
Vase Shapes
“bell” krater
used for mixing
hydra
used for water
amphora
used for wine
Vase Shapes (cont.)
kylix
used for drinking wine at a symposium
lekythos
used for oil
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1
Geometric Krater
by the Dipylon Master
from the Dipylon
Cemetery, Athens, GR
ca. 740 BCE
3’ 4 1/2” high
The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, NY
2
Françoise Vase (Attic
black-figure volute krater)
Kletias and Ergotimos
from Chiusi, Italy
ca. 570 BCE
approx. 2’ 2” high
Museo Archeologica,
Florence, IT
3
Achilles and Ajax playing a
dice game (detail from
black-figure amphora)
from Vulci, Italy
Exekias
ca. 540 - 530 BCE
whole vessel approx. 2’
high
Vatican Museums, Rome,
IT
4
Signature of
Exekias
black on red
Louvre, Paris, FR
5
Achilles and Ajax playing a
dice game (Attic bilingual
amphora)
from Orvietto, Italy
Andokides Painter
ca. 525 - 520 BCE
black-figure side (left)
red-figure side (right)
approx. 1’ 9” high
Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston
6
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Achilles Painter
ca. 440 - 430 BCE
red-figure amphora
Staatliche
Antikensammlugen,
Munich, Germany
Web Resources
• Wikipedia's entry on Ancient Greek Pottery
• The Beazley Archive: Classical Art Research Centre [Note:
Beazley is known as the first significant scholar of Greek
pottery after Wincklemann.]
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art's web page on Athenian
pottery – both black- and red-figure pottery is discussed.