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.
Attic red figure pottery.
530 bce in black figure painting figures and ornamentation were drawn on the natural clay surface of a vase in glossy black pigment.
Attic pottery was exported to magna graecia and even etruria the preference for attic vases led to the development of local south italian and etrurian workshops or schools strongly influenced by attic style but producing exclusively for local markets.
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.
700 bce and continued to be popular until the advent of red figure pottery c.
The last recorded examples of attic red figure pottery are.
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.
Attic potters benefitted from the excellent iron rich clay found in attica.
Red figure with purple white dilute washes and gilding style.
In the 5th century attic fine pottery now predominantly red figure maintained its dominance in the markets.
The eumenides painter was so named because of his topic the oresteia.
Red figure pottery is a style of greek vase painting that was invented in athens around 530 bce.
This is a photo of a red figure bell krater 380 370 showing clytemnestra trying to awaken the erinyes.
Helera is already in pollux s chariot that races past a statue of the goddess.
The finishing details were incised into the black.