The Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens - Softcover

Robertson, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521338816 ISBN 13: 9780521338813

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Synopsis

In this book, Professor Martin Robertson, author of A History of Greek Art (CUP 1975) and A Shorter History of Greek Art (CUP 1981), draws together the results of a lifetime's study of Greek vase-painting, tracing the history of figure-drawing on Athenian pottery from the invention of the "red-figure" technique in the later archaic period to the abandonment of figured vase-decoration two hundred years later. The book covers red-figure and also work produced over the same period in the same workshops in black-figure and other techniques, especially that of drawing in outline on a white ground. This book is a major contribution to the history of Greek vase-painting and anyone seriously interested in the subject--whether scholar, student, curator, collector or amateur--will find it essential reading.

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Book Description:

Tracing figure-drawing on Athenian pottery from the invention of the "red-figure" technique in the later archaic period to the abandonment of figured vase-decoration two hundred years later, this major contribution to the history of Greek vase-painting is the result of a lifetime's study.

From the Back Cover:

In this book, Professor Martin Robertson draws together the results of a lifetime's study of Greek vase-painting, tracing the history of figure-drawing on Athenian pottery from the invention of the 'red-figure' technique in the later archaic period to the abandonment of figured vase-decoration two hundred years later. The book covers red-figure and also work produces over the same period in the same workshops in black-figure and other techniques, especially that of drawing in outline on a white ground.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0521338816
• ISBN 13: 9780521338813
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 364