Papers on special techniques in Athenian vases : proceedings of a symposium held in connection with the exhibition 'The colors of clay: special techniques in Athenian vases', at the Getty Villa, June 15-17, 2006 / edited by Kenneth Lapatin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lapatin, Kenneth D. S.

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vases, Greek--Greece--Athens--Congresses.

Vases, Greek.

Vase-painting, Greek--Greece--Athens--Congresses.

Vase-painting, Greek.

Vases, Ancient--Greece--Athens--Congresses.

Vases, Ancient.

Pottery--Technique--Congresses.

Pottery.

Pottery--Technique.

Greece--Athens.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 242 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008.

Contents:

The colors of clay: combining special techniques on Athenian vases / Beth Cohen

Why special techniques? / Brian A. Sparkes

Six's technique and Etruscan Bucchero / Herman A. G. Brijder

The colors of the Akropolis: special techniques for Athena / Annie Verbanck-Piérard

"Women are white": white ground and the attic funeral / Jenifer Neils

Objects of affection: genre and gender on some Athenian vases / Claire L. Lyons

Observations and theories on the technical development of coral-red gloss / Jeffrey P. Maish

A preliminary investigation of coral-red glosses found on attic Greek pottery / M. S. Walton, E. Doehne, K. Trentelman, and G. Chiari

Ferrous and ferric: a review of scientific research on the iron in attic Greek glazes / Richard Newman

Recovery and revival of attic vase-decoration techniques: what can they offer archaeological research? / Eleni Aloupi-Siotis

Re-creating and firing a Greek kiln / Lisa C. Kahn and John C. Wissinger

The colors of Psiax / Joan R. Mertens

Of rams, women, and orientals: a brief history of attic plastic vases / Susanne Ebbinghaus

Some thoughts on the potters and painters of plastic vases before Sotades / Dyfri Williams

Clay, gold, and craft: special techniques in three vases by the Eretria painter and their Apotheosis in Xenophantos / Adrienne Lezzi-Hafter

Color for a market? Special techniques and distribution patterns in late Archaic and early Classical Greece / Athena Tsingarida

Athenian vases in special techniques in Magna Graecia and Sicily, and their influence on local production / Martine Denoyelle

Special vases in Etruria first- or secondhand? / Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen

Taste at the periphery of the Greek world: the Iberian peninsula and the Black Sea / Friederike Fless.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780892369010

0892369019

OCLC:

191847041