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Encyclopedia > Red figure pottery
Woman officiating at an altar, Attic red-figure kylix by Chairias, c. 505 BC, Ancient Agora Museum in Athens

Red-figure pottery is a style of archaic Greek pottery, later adopted in southern Italy. In the red-figure technique, the background is filled in with black paint and only the figures' details are painted, allowing the unpainted portions of the figures to take on the reddish tone of the Athenian clay after it is burned in the presence of oxygen. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 557 pixel Image in higher resolution (948 × 660 pixel, file size: 99 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Priest Red-figure... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 557 pixel Image in higher resolution (948 × 660 pixel, file size: 99 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Priest Red-figure... Kylix by Euergides (circa 500 BC) in the British Museum, London. ... Centuries: 7th century BC - 6th century BC - 5th century BC Decades: 550s BC - 540s BC - 530s BC - 520s BC - 510s BC - 500s BC - 490s BC - 480s BC - 470s BC - 460s BC - 450s BC Events and Trends 509 BC - Foundation of the Roman Republic 508 BC - Office of pontifex maximus created... Bilingual Amphora by the Andokides Painter, ca. ... The Gay Head cliffs in Marthas Vineyard are made almost entirely of clay. ... General Name, Symbol, Number oxygen, O, 8 Chemical series nonmetals, chalcogens Group, Period, Block 16, 2, p Appearance colorless (gas) very pale blue (liquid) Standard atomic weight 15. ...


Red-figure pottery, developed around 530 BC by the Andokides Painter, superseded the earlier black-figure pottery, except in the case of Panathenaic Amphorae, because the new process allowed more intricate detail on the ornaments, humans, animals etc. depicted. When developed, it was one of several techniques with which artists experimented. The techniques and conventions of red-figure painting were developed by a group of artists known as the Pioneer Group (among them Euphronios and Euthymides). It became the predominant technique and remained popular until the late 4th century BC. Centuries: 7th century BC - 6th century BC - 5th century BC Decades: 580s BC - 570s BC - 560s BC - 550s BC - 540s BC - 530s BC - 520s BC - 510s BC - 500s BC - 490s BC - 480s BC Events and Trends 538 BC - Babylon occupied by Jews transported to Babylon are allowed to return to... The Andokides Painter was a Greek vase painter who lived Athens towards the end of the 6th Century BCE., active from 535 to approximately 515. ... The black-figure pottery technique is a style of ancient Greek pottery painting in which the decoration appears as black silhouettes on a red background. ... Panathenic Amphora: Läufer These were the large ceramic vessels that contained the oil given as prizes in the Panathenaic Games. ... Image:Euphronios death of sarpedon. ... Death of Sarpedon, painted by Euphronios Euphronios was a Greek painter and potter of red-figure vases, active in Athens between 520 and 470 BC, the time of the Persian Wars. ... Euthymides was an Athenian potter and painter of vases, primarily active between 515 and 500 BC. He was a member of the Greek art movement later to be known as The Pioneers for their exploration of the new decorative style known as red-figure pottery. ... The 4th century BC started the first day of 400 BC and ended the last day of 301 BC. It is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or historical period. ...


Red-figure pottery is considered to mark the apex of Greek pottery, and most vases or cups famous today for their skillful painting are in the red-figure style. Chinese vase A vase with a sunflower pattern A modern designed vase The vase is an open container, often used to hold cut flowers. ...

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The red-figure technique

Detail of Athenian calyx krater by the Aegisthus painter — 460 BC

Creating a finished piece of red-figure pottery required close collaboration between the potter and the painter. The potter would shape the piece out of clay and deliver it to the painter while the clay was still damp. The painter would paint the vase using an instrument like a pastry bag with a syringe action nozzle of bone or wood to lay out the fine detail lines and background colors. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (852x1030, 1069 KB) Summary Man presents a cut of meat to a youth, a pederastic love gift. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (852x1030, 1069 KB) Summary Man presents a cut of meat to a youth, a pederastic love gift. ... Athens (Greek: Αθήνα - Athína) is the largest city and capital of Greece, located in the Attica periphery of central Greece. ... The word calyx has several possible meanings: Look up calyx in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A krater (Greek κρατηρ, from the Greek verb κεραννυμι, to mix. ... In Greek mythology, Aegisthus (goat strength, also transliterated as Aegisthos or Aigísthos) was the son of Thyestes and his daughter, Pelopia. ... Centuries: 4th century BC - 5th century BC - 6th century BC Decades: 500s BC 490s BC 480s BC 470s BC 460s BC - 450s BC - 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC Years: 465 BC 464 BC 463 BC 462 BC 461 BC - 460 BC - 459 BC 458 BC... A pastry bag is used to pipe semi-solid foods by pressing them through a narrow opening at one end, for many purposes including cake decoration. ... A syringe consists of a plunger fitted to a tube, called the barrel, which has a small opening on one end. ...


Since the paint only developed its color once the piece was fired in a kiln, the painter had to paint almost entirely from memory, unable to see his previous work. Additionally, the colors could only be applied while the clay was still wet, so the painter had to work very quickly. In the large kraters painted with the red-figure technique, this meant that tens of thousands of invisible lines had to be applied, each ending precisely at the right point to prevent overlapping in the intricate detail work, in an extremely short period of time. Despite these constraints, red-figure painters developed an intricate and detailed style. Charcoal Kilns, California Gold Kiln, Victoria, Australia Hop kiln. ... A krater (Greek κρατηρ, from the Greek verb κεραννυμι, to mix. ...


Painters working in the earlier black-figure technique had been forced to keep their figures well-separated from each other and limit the complexity of their illustration; since all foreground elements were filled with the same black shade, two figures overlapping each other might become indistinguishable. Anatomical detail beyond simple outlining was nearly impossible in the black-figure style, as only a limited number of colors (chiefly, a stark white) would stand out against the black figures.


By contrast, the red-figure technique allowed far greater latitude. Each figure was silhouetted naturally against the black ground, as if illuminated by theatrical lighting, and the more natural red-on-black color scheme, in conjunction with the greater variety of colors that the artist could employ, allowed red-figure painters to depict anatomical details with more accuracy and variety. A silhouette is a view of an object or scene consisting of the outline and a featureless interior. ...


The Pioneer Group of painters in particular used the red-figure technique to achieve a naturalism not previously seen in earlier styles. Humans and animals were depicted in naturalistic poses with schematic but accurate anatomy, and techniques of foreshortening and illusionistic perspective were developed to exploit the relative freedom of the red-figure method. This can be seen in Euthymides vase "Three revelers", where three figures twist and turn in a way that black-figure amorpha could have never achieved. Later artists, exploring the limits of the red-figure technique, would reintroduce white as a detail color (all but abandoned with the end of the black-figure style) and even extensive gilding became integrated into the red-figure style. Image:Euphronios death of sarpedon. ... A cube in two-point perspective. ... A gilded Tibetan Vajrasattva Gilding is the art of applying metal leaf (most commonly gold or silver leaf) to a surface. ...


Red-figure pottery painters

This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Achilles Painter, working from the 460s to the 420s BC, is the pseudonym of an Attic Greek vase-painter of outstanding quality (see Pottery of Ancient Greece), whose refined figure of Achilles on a red-figure amphora of ca. ... The Andokides Painter was a Greek vase painter who lived Athens towards the end of the 6th Century BCE., active from 535 to approximately 515. ... The Berlin Painter (working c. ... The Dragon of Kholkis disgorges Jason, attrbuted to Douris, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano. ... Death of Sarpedon, painted by Euphronios Euphronios was a Greek painter and potter of red-figure vases, active in Athens between 520 and 470 BC, the time of the Persian Wars. ... Euthymides was an Athenian potter and painter of vases, primarily active between 515 and 500 BC. He was a member of the Greek art movement later to be known as The Pioneers for their exploration of the new decorative style known as red-figure pottery. ... The Kleophon Painter is the name given to an anonymous Athenian vase painter in the red figure style who flourished in the mid-to-late 5th century BCE. He is thus named because one of the works attributed to him bears an inscription in praise of a youth named Kleophon. ... The Kleophrades Painter (or Cleophrades Painter) is the name given to an anonymous Athenian vase painter who flourished between about 505 BCE and 475 BCE, whose work is considered to be amongst the finest of the red figure style. ... Oltos was a painter of Greek red-figure pottery in the time window 525-500. ... Phintias was a Greek vase painter; along with Euphronios and Euthymides, he was one of the most important representatives of the Pioneer Group of Athenian red-figure vase painters. ... Polygnotos (active approx. ...

See also

Bilingual Amphora by the Andokides Painter, ca. ... The black-figure pottery technique is a style of ancient Greek pottery painting in which the decoration appears as black silhouettes on a red background. ...

References

  • Beazley J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase Painters, 3 vols., Oxford, 1963
  • Hellenistic Pottery and Terracottas, H.A and D.B. Thompson

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
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  • [1] - London: Red-figured water jar
  • [2] - Greek pottery images


 

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