

If you intend to use the photo for commercial aims, I would recommend you to contact the museum. Please note: Some museums permit photography of their exhibits for private, educational, scientific, non-commercial purposes only. Beazley Archive Pottery Database 213813 Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1963(2), 1064.3, Para 446 museum / inventory number: Oxford, Ashmolean Museum V 526 (Beazley, BAPD) / G 287 / V 562 (CVA) height (including the restored foot): 35.0 cm painter: Komaris Painter (Group of Polygnotos) B: 3 draped youths conversing, the right one with staff description A: 3 young artisans painting and carrying vases in the workshop

30 (1997).English: object type / vase shape: attic red figure bell-krater I usually forget, anyway, so I just check the dates of a couple, and go from there.įor more information, see: "Attic Red-Figured and White-Ground Pottery," Mary B. It is more obvious to paint black figures on a red substrate than it is to paint negative space, so the red figures are more evolved. Remember that whatever color the vase appears, it's still clay, and therefore reddish: clay=red. Tip: Of the two, black-figure came first, but if you're looking at a large collection at a museum, it's easy to forget. It grew more complex as it became more widely used, with techniques spreading throughout the Greek world. Simple style came first, often focusing on Dionysus. Euphronios is one of the most important of the painters from the early red-figure period. The style of painting continued to evolve. Named for the basic color of the figures, this form of pottery is called red-figure. Instead, artists using the new style enhanced their figures with black, white, or truly red lines.


Where black-figure artists engraved details through the black to reveal the underlying base reddish color ( see the lines delineating muscles in the pancratists photo), this technique would serve no purpose on red figures on pottery, since the underlying material was identically reddish-colored clay. Instead of painting the figures black ( see accompanying photo of pancratists) on orange-red clay, the new vase painters left the figures red and painted the background around the red figures black. Near the end of the sixth century B.C., a revolution took place in vase painting techniques in Athens.
