Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens

Name: Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens
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ISBN: 9780521338813

ISBN-10: 0521338816

ISBN-13: 9780521338813

Edition: 1992

Authors: Martin Robertson

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In this book, Professor Martin Robertson, author of A History of Greek Art (CUP 1975) and A Shorter History of Greek Art (CUP 1981), draws together the results of a lifetime's study of Greek vase-painting, tracing the history of figure-drawing on Athenian pottery from the invention of the "red-figure" technique in the later archaic period to the abandonment of figured vase-decoration two hundred years later. The book covers red-figure and also work produced over the same period in the same workshops in black-figure and other techniques, especially that of drawing in outline on a white ground. This book is a major contribution to the history of Greek vase-painting and anyone seriously…

Book details

List price: $55.99
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/28/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 8.62" wide x 10.87" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



The beginning of red-figure



A time of ferment: the red-figure Pioneers and their contemporaries



After the Pioneers: red-figure mastery; the beginnings of white-ground



Archaic into classical



Early classical



High classical



Developments from the high classical



The later fifth century; developments into the fourth



The fourth century


Notes


Bibliography and abbreviations


List of illustrations


Index.