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 Period Less geometric History
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 B.C. From Thebes.
Greek Pottery Bronze Age—Pottery wheel Athens – Mythological depictions – Pots on graves Clay Pottery
Greek Pottery Other Vessels Head of a griffin from a cauldron, third quarter of 7th century b.c. from Olympia story/arts1303/greek2.htm Bronze, silver, ivory, gold, glass, wood
Greek Pottery Pot styles: – Amphora--storage – Alabastron--perfume – Hydria--water – Lekythos--oil Styles
Painting Styles: – Geometric – Black-Figure – Red-Figure Greek Pottery Styles Aeneas carrying Anchises. Attic black- figure oinochoe, c BC. Idas and Marpessa are separated by Zeus. Attic red-figure psykter, c. 480 B.C., by the Pan Painter. Pictures and captions from od/greekart/ig/Greek-Pottery/ Large late Geometric Attic amphora, c. 725 B.C B.C.
Brygos Painter – Worked 490 B.C 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 Pottery Potters
Misc. Pictures Theseus. From Theseus and the Gathering of the Argonauts. Attic red-figure calyx, B.C. Bronze hydria, 4th century B.C. Late Geometric Period Oinochoe With Battle Scene B.C. “clay potty chair”
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