greek pottery categories: – stone age 6000 b.c. geometric and simple styles and colors – early...
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Greek Pottery
• Categories:– Stone Age
• 6000 B.C.• Geometric and simple styles and colors
– Early Bronze Age• Pottery wheel
– Late Bronze Age• More elaborate designs
– Sub-Mycenean (Dark Age)• Revert back to crude, homemade pottery
900 B.C. --Archaic PeriodLess geometric
History
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Greek Pottery
• Pottery was used to “store, transport, and drink liquids such as wine and water” (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
• Depict mythological scenes• Decorative pieces• Grave markers
Uses
Dionysos, Ariadne, satyrs and maenads. Side A of an Attic red-figure calyx-krater, c. 400-375 B.C. From Thebes.
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Greek Pottery
• Bronze Age—Pottery wheel• Athens– Mythological depictions– Pots on graves
Clay Pottery
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Greek PotteryOther Vessels
Head of a griffin from a cauldron, third quarter of 7th century b.c. from Olympia
http://www.alamo.edu/sac/vat/arthistory/arts1303/greek2.htm
•Bronze, silver, ivory, gold, glass, wood
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Greek Pottery
• Pot styles:– Amphora--storage
– Alabastron--perfume
– Hydria--water
– Lekythos--oil
Styles
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• Painting Styles:– Geometric
– Black-Figure
– Red-Figure
Greek PotteryStyles
Aeneas carrying Anchises. Attic black-figure oinochoe, c. 520-510 BC.
Idas and Marpessa are separated by Zeus. Attic red-figure psykter, c. 480 B.C., by the Pan Painter.
Pictures and captions from http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/greekart/ig/Greek-Pottery/
Large late Geometric Attic amphora, c. 725 B.C. - 700 B.C.
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• Brygos Painter– Worked 490 B.C. - 470 B.C.– Athens– Red-figure cups, vases
• Lysippides Painter– Worked 530 to 510 B.C.– Black figure
• Andokides– Invention of red-figure
• Psiax– Worked c. 525 B.C. – c. 510 B.C. Athens– Used everything; red figure, black figure, etc.– First painter to show complex human body paintings– Worked for Andokides
Greek PotteryPotters
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Misc. Pictures
Theseus. From Theseus and the Gathering of the Argonauts. Attic red-figure calyx, 460-450 B.C. Bronze hydria, 4th century
B.C.Late Geometric Period Oinochoe With Battle Scene. 750-725 B.C.
“clay potty chair”
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