History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2)Walters, H. B. (Henry Beauchamp)
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History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2)
Walters, H. B. (Henry Beauchamp)
Mythology, Classical, in art; Pottery, Ancient; Pottery, Etruscan; Pottery, Greek; Pottery, Roman
HISTORY OF GREEK VASE-PAINTING
CHAPTER VI
_PRIMITIVE FABRICS_
Introductory—Cypriote Bronze-Age
pottery—Classification—Mycenaean pottery in Cyprus—Graeco-
Phoenician fabrics—Shapes and decoration—Hellenic and later
vases—Primitive pottery in Greece—Troy—Thera and
Cyclades—Crete—Recent discoveries—Mycenaean
pottery—Classification and distribution—Centres of
fabric—Ethnography and chronology 234–276
CHAPTER VII
_RISE OF VASE-PAINTING IN GREECE_
Geometrical decoration—Its origin—Distribution of
pottery—Shapes and ornamentation of vases—Subjects—Dipylon
vases—Boeotian Geometrical wares—Chronology—Proto-Attic
fabrics—Phaleron ware—Later Boeotian vases—Melian
amphorae—Corinth and its pottery—“Proto-Corinthian”
vases—Vases with imbrications and floral decoration—Incised
lines and ground-ornaments—Introduction of figure-
subjects—Chalcidian vases—“Tyrrhenian Amphorae” 277–327
CHAPTER VIII
_VASE-PAINTING IN IONIA_
General characteristics—Classification—Mycenaean
influence—Rhodian pottery—“Fikellura” ware—Asia Minor
fabrics—Cyrenaic vases—Naukratis and its pottery—Daphnae
ware—Caeretan hydriae—Other Ionic fabrics—“Pontic”
vases—Early painting in Ionia—Clazomenae sarcophagi 328–367
CHAPTER IX
_ATHENIAN BLACK-FIGURED VASES_
Definition of “black-figured”—The François vase—Technical
and stylistic details—Shapes—Decorative patterns—Subjects
and types—Artists’ signatures—Exekias and Amasis—Minor
Artists—Nikosthenes—Andokides—“Affected” vases—Panathenaic
amphorae—Vases from the Kabeirion—Opaque painting on black
ground—Vase-painting and literary tradition—Early Greek
painting and its subsequent development 368–399
CHAPTER X
_RED-FIGURED VASES_
Origin of red-figure style—Date of introduction—Καλός-names
and historical personages—Technical characteristics—Draughts
manship—Shapes—Ornamentation—Subjects and types—Subdivisions
of style—Severe period and artists—Strong
period—Euphronios—Duris, Hieron, and Brygos—Fine
period—Influence of Polygnotos—Later fine period—Boeotian
local fabric 400–453
CHAPTER XI
_WHITE-GROUND AND LATER FABRICS_
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