Archaic Period
1. What is the role of narrative imagery?
2. What are the subjects of iconography?
3. The development od the Athenian black-figure technique
Archaic: 600-500 bce (6th c)
Early Corinthian krater
Ca. 600
Representations of banqueting/symposion
Elite mens drinking party
Middle Corinthian Aryballos
Ca. 590-570
Displays writing
More writing beginning on ceramics
Shows drinking, dancing, music
Inscription: talks about Pyrvias and him earning the pot through dance
Attic Black-Figure
Retain larger vessel size
Extensive use of slip
Very glossy finish on black color
Also called black-gloss, black-slip, black-glaze
Emphasis on symmetry and nuanced design
Making Greek Vases
Specialized kilns for firing
Color created by manipulating the amount of oxygen inside the kiln
Plaque from Corinth
6th c. BCE
Shows potters in the process of making
Collecting clay from beds
Processing for impurities
, Forming on wheel/handbuild
Firing
Plaques dedicated to god Poseidon
Offering to make sure that goods make safe sea passage
Kilns not permanent fixtures
Phases of firing:
1. Oxidation (firing) (air flow from open doors)
2. De-oxidization (reducing) (close the openings)
3. Reoxidization (open the doors again) (re-fire)
Sir JD Beazley (1885-1970)
Mistrusted ancient signatures
Pointed towards the painting and design to identify artists
Identify specific artist’s hands
Must have more than one example
Beazley’s method:
Worked through making his own sketches
Looked at anatomy
Details like anatomy has an unconscious way of painting the parts the
same way every time
Drapery of clothing
Form analysis
Donna Kurtz
Organized Beazley’s records after his death
Started Beazley archive at oxford
Sir John Boardman
Oxford guy
First person to draw cores out of vessels for analysis
Helped donna
Sophilos: the first Athenian vase-painter to sign his name
Black-figure dinos and stand
Ca. 580 bce
1. What is the role of narrative imagery?
2. What are the subjects of iconography?
3. The development od the Athenian black-figure technique
Archaic: 600-500 bce (6th c)
Early Corinthian krater
Ca. 600
Representations of banqueting/symposion
Elite mens drinking party
Middle Corinthian Aryballos
Ca. 590-570
Displays writing
More writing beginning on ceramics
Shows drinking, dancing, music
Inscription: talks about Pyrvias and him earning the pot through dance
Attic Black-Figure
Retain larger vessel size
Extensive use of slip
Very glossy finish on black color
Also called black-gloss, black-slip, black-glaze
Emphasis on symmetry and nuanced design
Making Greek Vases
Specialized kilns for firing
Color created by manipulating the amount of oxygen inside the kiln
Plaque from Corinth
6th c. BCE
Shows potters in the process of making
Collecting clay from beds
Processing for impurities
, Forming on wheel/handbuild
Firing
Plaques dedicated to god Poseidon
Offering to make sure that goods make safe sea passage
Kilns not permanent fixtures
Phases of firing:
1. Oxidation (firing) (air flow from open doors)
2. De-oxidization (reducing) (close the openings)
3. Reoxidization (open the doors again) (re-fire)
Sir JD Beazley (1885-1970)
Mistrusted ancient signatures
Pointed towards the painting and design to identify artists
Identify specific artist’s hands
Must have more than one example
Beazley’s method:
Worked through making his own sketches
Looked at anatomy
Details like anatomy has an unconscious way of painting the parts the
same way every time
Drapery of clothing
Form analysis
Donna Kurtz
Organized Beazley’s records after his death
Started Beazley archive at oxford
Sir John Boardman
Oxford guy
First person to draw cores out of vessels for analysis
Helped donna
Sophilos: the first Athenian vase-painter to sign his name
Black-figure dinos and stand
Ca. 580 bce
