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29 Cards in this Set
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Andokides Pt. - Lysippides Pt. |
Black figure and red figure technique featured on one vase -different painters or the same painter? |
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bilingual vase |
{Amphora, 520 BC} Vase that features black figure on one side, and red figure on the other side (two techniques on one vessel) |
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Pioneer Group |
A number of red-figure vase painters working in Kerameikos (or the potters' quarter of Athens) around the beginning of the 5th century BCE -perhaps the first conscious art movement in the western tradition - group comprised of the painters Euphronios, Euthymides, Phintias |
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Euphronius |
{Cadlyix Krater, 520-510 BC} Ancient Greek vase painter and potter, active in Athens late 6th & early 5th centuries BC Part of the "Pioneer Group" ( the change from Black-figure pottery to Red figure) - one of the most important artists of red-figure technique. |
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Sarpedon |
-Son of Zeus -fought with distinction on the side of the Trojans but was slain by the Greek warrior Patroclus |
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Heracles and Antaios |
{Featured scene on a calyx krater} Famous mighty Greek hero wrestles a giant of Libya who compelled all strangers who were passing through the country to wrestle with him Giants would kill the travelers |
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Euthymides |
{520-510 BC} -Ancient Athenian potter and painter of vases -active between 515 and 500 BC -member of the Greek art movement ("The Pioneers") --exploration of the new decorative style known as Athenian red-figure pottery |
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Phintias |
{Hydria, 520-510 BC} -Ancient Greek vase painter -one of the most important representatives of the Pioneer Group of red-figure painters (along with Euphronios and Euthymides) |
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Berlin Painter |
(active c. 490s-c. 460s BCE) -Attic Greek vase-painter who is widely regarded as a rival to the Kleophrades Painter -among the most talented vase painters of the early 5th c. BCE -introduced red-figure painting (member of Pioneer Group?) |
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Europa |
{Bell Krater, 490 BC} -Zeus turned into a bull to win her over- he found her in a field and led her into the sleep to be with her |
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Kleophrades Painter |
{Pointed amphora, 490-480 BC} Early Classical piece -anonymous red-figure Athenian vase painter, active 510 – 470 BC -his work is considered amongst the finest of the red figure style, is identified by its stylistic traits - Vivenzio Hydria as well |
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Vivenzio hydria |
{Hydria, 480 BC) Attic red figure vase -Sack of Troy -Kleophrades |
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Douris |
{Kylix, 480 BC} An ancient Athenian red-figure vase-painter and potter (early classical) -active c. 500 to 460 BCE. -- Between 250 and 300 vases are ascribed to him (The majority of these vases are kylixes) |
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Brygos Painter |
{Tondo of a cup, 480 BC} An ancient Greek Attic red-figure vase painter of the Late Archaic period -Active in the first third of the 5th century BCE |
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Pan Painter |
{Bell Krater, 470 BC} Painter in the Early Classical pupil of Myson, attic red figure personality: "kind of kinky" Early Classical components (lack of archaic smile,square chin, stacked folds) -Pan and Actaeon scenes |
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Actaeon |
Hunter who fell to the fatal wrath of Artemis after he accidentally saw her when she was changing "the hunter became the hunted" -he was transformed into a stag, and his raging hounds, struck with a 'wolf's frenzy' tore him apart as they would a stag |
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Niobid Painter |
{460 BC Calylix Krater} -Ancient Athenian vase painter in the red figure style -Active from 470 to 450 BC -named after a calyx krater which shows the god Apollo and his sister Artemis killing the Niobids -End of Early Classical |
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Polygnotos |
Painter famed for his large monumental wall paintings in a severely classical style, none of which is extant -He lived in Athens and eventually acquired citizenship |
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Mikon |
Greek painter and sculptor, a contemporary and pupil of Polygnotus, who, with him, was among the first to develop the treatment of space in Greek painting As a painter, he is known for the mural painting on the Stoa Poikile (“Painted Portico”) on the Agora at Athens |
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Lesche at Delphi |
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Niobids |
-the children of Niobe, house of Phrygia -Were slain by Apollo and Artemis because Niobe had boastfully compared the greater number of her own offspring with those of Leto, Apollo's and Artemis' mother -A classic example of hubris |
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Achilles Painter |
A vase-painter active 470-425 BC --His name vase is an amphora depicting Achilles, 450-445 BC -Sir John Beazley attributed over 200 vases to his hand, the largest share being red-figure and white-ground lekythoi -A late pupil of the Berlin Painter |
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White-gound Lekythoi |
style of ancient Greek vase painting in which figures appear on a white background It developed in the region ofAttica, dated to about 500 B.C. |
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Meidias Painter |
An Athenian red-figure vase painter -active in the last quarter of the 5th c. BC (fl. c. 420 to c. 400 BC) --scene on the vase was the rape of daughters of Leukippos --scene of the Garden of the Hesperides |
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Rape of Leucippides |
-Meidias Painter -Rich Style, 420-410BC -Hydra, upper register -Daughters of King Leucippid are kidnapped |
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Garden of the Hesperides |
-Meidias Painter -Rich Style, 420-410BC Hydra, bottom register -Snake featured guarding the golden apples from Herakles |
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Phaon |
Piece featured 420-410 BC -MEIDIAS PAINTER -Myth: Aphrodite changes someone man into an irresistible young man -He gets hounded by a plethora of women |
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Group R |
High Classical, 410-400 BC -Painted by Parrahasios -White-ground lekythoi -Youth seated at tomb between youth and woman |
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Parrhasios |
Painter from Ephesus
-relied exclusively on line to convey volume (a technique familiar to us from the white-ground lekythos) |
