16 erotic images on attic vases.
Attic figured scenes origin.
The françois vase is a large attic volute krater dating to c.
An astonishing range of scenes and characters from greek mythology cover the vase and make it an important reference for these stories some of which no longer exist in written form.
570 565 bce and it is perhaps the example par excellence of the black figure pottery style.
Oedipus in greek mythology the king of thebes who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother.
From the collection of f.
On attic black figure vases the figures are in black against an orange red clay ground while the details are picked out in incisions and touches of purple and white.
Ancient greek pottery due to its relative durability comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient greece and since there is so much of it over 100 000 painted vases are recorded in the corpus vasorum antiquorum it has exerted a disproportionately large influence on our understanding of greek society the shards of pots discarded or buried in the 1st millennium bc are.
Attic pottery was exported to magna graecia and even etruria the preference for attic vases led to the development of local south italian and etrurian workshops or schools strongly influenced by attic style but producing exclusively for local markets.
500 bc in red figure.
In this period the surface of the pot was completely covered with a network of fine patterns in which circles and arcs predominate.
The vase was discovered in c.
Attic lekythus around 500 480 bc black figured on the body the depiction of a women s scene three women with horse and cart.
The pottery of ancient greece from c.
Kohl southern germany acquired in the early 1960s.
1845 ce in chiusi etruria.
A wreathed column krater for mixing wine and water a large skyphos for the relief of a sick symposiast a lamp stand that also accommodates a ladle and strainer and krotala castanets.
Homer related that oedipus s wife and mother hanged herself when the truth of their relationship became known though oedipus apparently continued to rule at thebes until his death.
Greek pottery developed from a mycenaean tradition borrowing both pot forms and decoration.
Further pottery with its durability even when broken and lack of appeal to treasure hunters is one of the great archaeological survivors.
Interior flute playing satyr and maenad exterior obverse and reverse symposium the exterior provides a particularly full illustration of the symposium drinking party and especially of its paraphernalia.
The parts of the womens bodies not covered by their tunics are painted white.
In the 5th century attic fine pottery now predominantly red figure maintained its dominance in the markets.
The main scene often depicts a group of women each with a hydria at a water fountain.
400 bce provides not only some of the most distinctive vase shapes from antiquity but also some of the oldest and most diverse representations of the cultural beliefs and practices of the ancient greeks.
Attic black figure leckthus 500 480 b c.
The earliest stylistic period is the geometric lasting from about 1000 to 700 bce this period is further broken down into a proto geometric transition from mycenaean forms.
