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1 Greek Vase Painting Geometric/Orientalizing Review Black-figure Red – figure White - ground

2 GEOMETRIC Funerary krater, 750 BCE Narrative bands Deceased on table Focus on emotions of survivors Simplified geometric figures

3 Orientalizing Olpe, 600 BCE Hybrid animals and decoration show influence of Egypt and Mesopotamia

4 BLACK - FIGURE Klietias (artist/potter), Francois Vase, black-figure, 570 BCE Discovered by an archaeologist named Francois Transition from geometric and orientalizing into archaic Still using bands for narration, but not for long Mythological subjects, many from Trojan war Two hundred figures, all labeled!

5 BLACK - FIGURE Exekias, The Suicide of Ajax, black-figure on amphora, 540 BCE Single scene o each side Ajax, best friend and cousin of Achilles, preparing to fall on his sword Legs show realistic crouching position Balanced composition reflects the shape of the vase

6 RED - FIGURE No need to memorize the vase at the top. Scene of a death in the Trojan war. Pan Painter, Artemis Slaying Actaeon, red-figure on bell krater, 470 BCE (bottom) Goddess Artemis turns Acteon’s dogs on him and then shoots him with arrow because he happened upon her bathing while he was hunting in the woods composition reflects the shape of the vase

7 WHITE - GROUND Achilles style painter, scene on a lekythos, 450 BCE Delicate details Painter created many images of Achilles

8 Battle of Issus, mosaic, 100 BCE. Roman copy of Greek original Alexander the Great battling Darius. Action-packed.

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