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

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.

Greek Pottery

• Bronze Age—Pottery wheel• Athens– Mythological depictions– Pots on graves

Clay Pottery

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

Greek Pottery

• Pot styles:– Amphora--storage

– Alabastron--perfume

– Hydria--water

– Lekythos--oil

Styles

• 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.

• 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

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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