Red figure pottery type of greek pottery that flourished from the late 6th to the late 4th century bce.
Define attic red figure greek.
510 bc 500 b c marie lan nguyen wikimedia commons euphronios c 520 470 b c like the berlin painter was one of the athenian pioneers of red figure painting.
Details were added largely by incising.
It replaced the previously dominant style of black figure vase painting within a few decades.
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.
The dioscouroi castor and pollux abduct the daughters of leucippus from a sanctuary of aphrodite.
The style is characterized by drawn red figures and a painted black background.
It developed in athens around 520 bc and remained in use until the late 3rd century bc.
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Red figure with purple white dilute washes and gilding.
Eucharides painter greek attic active about 500 470 b c 38 9 32 cm 15 5 16 12 5 8 in 86 ae 227.
Red figure pottery is a style of greek vase painting that was invented in athens around 530 bce.
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Helera is already in pollux s chariot that races past a statue of the goddess.
Satyr pursues a maenad tondo of a red figure attic cup c.
Eriphyle is in castor s arms and his chariot awaits them.
Between the beginning of the sixth and the end of the fourth century b c black and red figure techniques were used in athens to decorate fine pottery while simpler undecorated wares fulfilled everyday household purposes.
The last recorded examples of attic red figure pottery are from about 320 bce.
In the latter figures were painted in glossy black pigment in silhouette on the orange red surface of the vase.
He signed his name on 18 vases 12 times as potter and 6 as painter.
Euphronios was also a potter.
With both techniques the potter first shaped the vessel on a wheel.
Red figure vase painting is one of the most important styles of figural greek vase painting.