Greek Vase Painting

1. Geometric Vase c. 800 BC.

2. Geometric Vase c. 800 BC. Stylized animals.

3. Dipylond Vase c. 750 BC. Funeral Scene.

4. Detail of #3.

5. Crater c. 730 BC. Funeral scene above; chariots below.

6. Detail of #5.

7. Analatos Painter c. 700 BC. "Orientalizing" period.

8. Detail of #6.

9. Eleusis Painter c. 650 BC. Odysseus and Cyclops above; Gorgons below.

10. Detail of #9-Gorgons.

11. Detail of #9-Odysseus.

12. Nessos Painter c. 600 BC Early black figure. Herakles & Nessos above; Gorgons below.

13. Detail of #12-Gorgon. Note use of incision for detail.

14. Detail of #12-Herakles and Nessos.

15. Early Black Figure c. 550 BC. Artemis above; Aias & Achilles' body below.

16. Exekias c. 550 BC. Aias prepares for suicide.

17. Archaic period metope of same scene as #16, a moment later.

18. Exekias c. 540 BC. Achilles and Aias play knucklebones. Achilles says, "tessara" (four), Aias says "tria" (three). Achilles wins!

19. Exekias c. 540 BC. Dionysos sailing ( scene from Homeric Hymn to Dionysos).

20. Amasis painter c. 540 BC. Athena & Poseidon. Inscription says, "Amasis me poiesen" (Amasis made me).

21. Attic black figure hydria c. 530 BC. Achilles w/body of Hektor.

22. Andocides painter 530 BC. Black figure side of "Bilingual" vase: Athena and Herakles.

23. Red figure side of #22.

24. Lysippides painter 530 BC. Black figure side of "Bilingual" vase: Herakles & sacrificial bull.

25. Red figure side of #24.

26. Panathenaic prize amphora c. 530 BC. Panathenaic prize amphorae continued to be done in black figure after 530 BC.

27. Euphronias c. 510 BC. Red figure kalax crater. Death of Sarpedon.

28. Brygos painter c. 480 BC. Red figure wine cup. Young woman holds head of young man vomiting.

29. Berlin painter c. 480 BC. Hermes & satyr.

30. Symposium scene. Wine cup c. 460 BC. Kottabos, fun and games.

31. Niobid painter c. 460 BC. Apollo and Artemis kill daughters of Niobe.

32. Red figure vase. Apollo, Leto, Artemis.

33. Red figure vase. Hephaistos, Dionysos.

34. Brygos painter c. 490 BC. White ground cup. Maenad (female worshipper of Dionysos).

35. Phiale painter c. 425 BC. White ground lekythos. Hermes Psychopompos. Hermes with his kerykeion prepares to lead woman to underworld.

36. White ground cup. Eros.