The finishing details were incised into the black.
Attic red figure pottery.
Black figure pottery type of greek pottery that originated in corinth c.
530 bce in black figure painting figures and ornamentation were drawn on the natural clay surface of a vase in glossy black pigment.
700 bce and continued to be popular until the advent of red figure pottery c.
This is a photo of a red figure bell krater 380 370 showing clytemnestra trying to awaken the erinyes.
The eumenides painter was so named because of his topic the oresteia.
The last recorded examples of attic red figure pottery are.
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 dioscouroi castor and pollux abduct the daughters of leucippus from a sanctuary of aphrodite.
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.
Red figure pottery grew in popularity and by the early 5th century bce it had all but replaced black figure pottery as the predominant pottery type in athens.
In the 5th century attic fine pottery now predominantly red figure maintained its dominance in the markets.
Pottery painters in greek colonized southern italy followed the red figure attic pottery model and expanded on it beginning in the mid fifth century b c.
Attic potters benefitted from the excellent iron rich clay found in attica.
Later classical ornate subject s.
Red figure pottery is a style of greek vase painting that was invented in athens around 530 bce.