Black Figure Pottery

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)