Tuesday 29 September 2020

The Athena Painter and Attic Ceramics styles.

 We think of Classical Ceramics progressing from Geometric through Archaic to Red Figure and Black Figure and Polychrome on White Ground but styles were not quite so neatly divided.



An artist known as the Athena painter seemed to have preferred a very pale almost white clay and used black but almost some red and used incision as well as painting. Note how the fine lines of the robe and details on the horse are incised through black slip but most of the rest of the image is painted. 

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