Red figure pottery is a style of greek vase painting that was invented in athens around 530 bce.
Attic red figure pottery.
The finishing details were incised into the black.
Helera is already in pollux s chariot that races past a statue of the goddess.
Later classical ornate subject s.
The dioscouroi castor and pollux abduct the daughters of leucippus from a sanctuary of aphrodite.
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.
The style is characterized by drawn red figures and a painted black background.
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 with purple white dilute washes and gilding style.
700 bce and continued to be popular until the advent of red figure pottery c.
Attic potters benefitted from the excellent iron rich clay found in attica.
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.
The eumenides painter was so named because of his topic the oresteia.
This is a photo of a red figure bell krater 380 370 showing clytemnestra trying to awaken the erinyes.
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.