Greek Pottery

1. Greek Pottery History • 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 Period • Less geometric

2. Greek Pottery Uses • Pottery was used to “store, transport, and drink liquids such as wine and water” (Encyclopaedia Britannica) • Depict mythological scenes • Decorative pieces • Grave markers Dionysos, Ariadne, satyrs and maenads. Side A of an Attic red-figure calyx-krater, c. 400-375 B.C. From Thebes.

3. Greek Pottery Clay Pottery • Bronze Age—Pottery wheel • Athens • Mythological depictions • Pots on graves

4. Greek Pottery Other Vessels • Bronze, silver, ivory, gold, glass, wood 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

5. Greek Pottery Styles • Pot styles: • Amphora--storage • Alabastron--perfume • Hydria--water • Lekythos--oil

6. Greek Pottery Styles • Painting Styles: • Geometric • Black-Figure • Red-Figure Aeneas carrying Anchises. Attic black-figure oinochoe, c. 520-510 BC. Large late Geometric Attic amphora, c. 725 B.C. - 700 B.C. Pictures and captions from http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/greekart/ig/Greek-Pottery/ Idas and Marpessa are separated by Zeus. Attic red-figure psykter, c. 480 B.C., by the Pan Painter.

7. Greek Pottery Potters • 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

8. Misc. Pictures Bronze hydria, 4th century B.C. Theseus. From Theseus and the Gathering of the Argonauts. Attic red-figure calyx, 460-450 B.C. Late Geometric Period Oinochoe With Battle Scene. 750-725 B.C. “clay potty chair”

9. Sources • "Brygos Painter (Getty Museum)." The Getty. J. Paul Getty Trust. Web. 20 Dec. 2010. <http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=779>. • Carr, Karen, Dr. "Greek Pottery." Kidipede. Portland State University, 4 Nov. 2010. Web. 18 Dec. 2010. <http://historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/art/pottery/greekpots.htm>. • "Greek Pottery -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia." Encyclopedia - Britannica Online Encyclopedia. Web. 18 Dec. 2010. <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/244731/Greek-pottery>. • Gill, N. S. "Ancient Greek Pottery." About.com. The New York Times Company, 2010. Web. 18 Dec. 2010. <http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/greekart/ig/Greek-Pottery/>. • "Lysippides Painter (Getty Museum)." The Getty. The J. Paul Getty Museum. Web. 20 Dec. 2010. <http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=711>. • Sowder, Amy. "Ancient Greek Bronze Vessels." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010. Web. 18 Dec. 2010. <http://metmuseum.org/toah/hd/agbv/ hd_agbv.htm>.