Attic Red Figure Hydria
Red figure pottery is a style of greek vase painting that was invented in athens around 530 bce.
Attic red figure hydria. For discussion see j d. From handle left to right. Kleophrades painter greek attic active 505 475 b c. Tiverios elliniki techni museum.
The last recorded examples of attic red figure pottery are. In the 5th century attic fine pottery now predominantly red figure maintained its dominance in the markets. The cultural history of artefacts is a rewarding field of enquiry for understanding the many different ways that certain objects have been seen and valued in the past. 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.
The three handles of the shape facilitated pouring and lifting. Beazley archive pottery. Naples museo nazionale archeologico size. Red figure with purple white.
The style is characterized by drawn red figures and a painted black background. Hydria of kalpis type rounded shoulder function. London british museum size. Attic red figure meidias painter s name vase view larger image view larger image photographs.
Beth harris and dr. Expansive style with emotionally charged single figures and groups subject s. The striking meander decoration around the rim of the hydria appears in other works attributed to or in the manner of the lysippides painter for example a krater f306 in the musee du louvre paris. Beazley attic black figure vase painters oxford 1956 254 257.
Attic potters benefitted from the excellent iron rich clay found in attica. 460 50 b c e 54 x 56 cm musée du louvre speakers. Sack of troy encircles the shoulder. Hydria signed on the shoulder by meidias as maker function.
Niobid painter niobid krater attic red figure calyx krater c. With over 20 000 extant pieces attic black figure vases comprise the largest and at the same time most significant vase collection second only to attic red figure vases. The kleophrades painter decorated the angular form of hydria but he later switched to the kalpis. Figure 1 attic red figure hydria attributed to the meidias painter 420 400 bc trustees of the british museum london.
Other features such as the type of ornament framing the panel also suggest that this vase comes from the later phase of the kleophrades painter s career. The kalpis is the rounded form of a hydria or water vessel favored by red figure artists in this period. High quality attic black figure vases have a uniform glossy pitch black coating and the color.