It is one of the masterpieces of the attic black figure potter exekias and one of the most significant works in the staatliche antikensammlungen in munich.
Definition of attic black figure.
Red figure pottery consists of red images against a black background while black figure pottery consists of black pictures against the naturally red color of the vase.
In black figure vase painting figural and ornamental motifs were applied with a slip that turned black during firing while the background was left the color of the clay.
Style of painting on ancient greek vases.
Exekias is regarded by art historians as an artistic visionary whose masterful use of incision and psychologically sensitive compositions mark him as one of the greatest of all attic vase painters.
Berlin foundry cup a red figure kylix from the early 5th century bc.
Laconia was a third albeit minor producer of the style in the first half of the 6th century bce.
Black figure pottery painting also known as the black figure style or black figure ceramic greek μελανόμορφα melanomorpha is one of the styles of painting on antique greek vases.
Vase painters articulated individual forms by incising the slip or by adding white and purple enhancements mixtures of pigment and clay.
700 bce and continued to be popular until the advent of red figure pottery c.
Exekias worked mainly in the black figure technique which involved the painting of scenes using a clay slip that fired to black with details created through incision.
Black figure pottery became very popular and was a major trade item all across the mediterranean from syria to italy.
Black figure definition is of belonging to or constituting a style of ceramic painting practiced by or in imitation of greeks of the 6th century b c.
Heracles and geryon on an attic black figured amphora with a thick layer of transparent gloss c.
Exekias was an ancient greek vase painter and potter who was active in athens between roughly 545 bc and 530 bc.
In which the decoration is in black with occasional added details in white slip on the red body clay of the vessel and in which the subjects are usually drawn from mythology athletic events or the hunt in an archaic and stiff style.
It is the name vase of the attic vase painter known conventionally as the foundry painter.
Ancient greek black figure pottery named after the colour of the depictions on the pottery was first produced in corinth c.
The high quality of the vases as well as the new style of decorations.
530 bce in black figure painting figures and ornamentation were drawn on the natural clay surface of a vase in glossy black pigment.
Black figure pottery type of greek pottery that originated in corinth c.
540 bc now in the munich state collection of antiquities.
The finishing details were incised into the black.