22 - Vase Painting Outside Attica

Question 1

General dates of Corinthian style

Answer 1

Protocorinthian: 720-630
Transitional: 630-620
Corinthian: 620-525

Question 2

Early Protocorinthian

Answer 2

720-690. Use of outline for some figures rather than silhouette begins. Massive production of the aryballos; the spherical shape was the most popular

Question 3

Middle Protocorinthian

Answer 3

690-650. Use of some incision in areas of the animal. Invention of black-figure technique. Egg-shaped aryballos

Question 4

Late Protocorinthian

Answer 4

650-630. The best time for the Corinthians. Imaginative - experiment with neck and not of aryballos, where the head of the vase becomes a head of a human or animal. Figural narrative scenes in friezes.

Question 5

Athens vs Corinth

Answer 5

They were rivals economically for a long time. Until mid-Corinthian, products from Corinth dominated economically. Yet Corinthian painters never achieve the accuracy of Attic ones.

Question 6

LPC masterpiece

Answer 6

Shaped as an olpe, an oinochoe with broader lower part. Shows the phalanx. Too many legs - is this a mistake, or an attempt to show that there are more soldiers than presented?

Question 7

Transitional Period

Answer 7

630-620. Artists are taking a step back and lightening the composition and decor. Going back to animal friezes.

Question 8

Early Corinthian

Answer 8

620-590. Animal friezes continue from the transitional but the human figure is reintroduced. Gets more crowded - more animals and more rosettes at around 600. Horror vacuii by end of EC period.

Question 9

Middle Corinthian

Answer 9

590-570. Human figures take over. This period is when Corinthians realize that Athens is taking over Meditteranean trade.

Question 10

Late Corinthian

Answer 10

570-525. The economic/cultural battle against Athens has been lost. Remember than Corinthian clay is yellowish…but they start to imitate the color of red Attic clay using slip. Narratives also mirror Attic workshops. Decline.

Question 11

Wild Goat Style

Answer 11

Develops in Eastern Greece - Miletos, Samos. Tripartitle division into early, middle, and late.

Question 12

Early Wild Goat Style

Answer 12

650-630. Best friezes of wild animals ever. No use of incision - just outline. Crowded but no crazy because the rosettes are outlined, not heavy like those of EC period. Most popular shape is hydria.

Question 13

Middle Wild Goat Style

Answer 13

630-600.

Question 14

Late Wild Goat Style

Answer 14

600-570.

Question 15

Chian Style

Answer 15

600-550. Island of Chios becomes center of production of specific drinking cup: chalice. They cover the vase with white slip - important to do so because Chian clay sucked. Decoration: 1-3 figures on one side; on the other could have nothing, another figure, a geometric motif. From 600-575 BCE, fill-ornaments in secondary area. 575-550 BCE, omit fill-ornaments.

Question 16

Laconian Style

Answer 16

570-500. In Sparta. Til the end of the Archaic, Sparta was leading cultural center. After Archaic, social changes meant abandonment of art and culture in favor of military and politics. Kylix most famous

Question 17

Laconian Style Kylix

Answer 17

570-500. Impeccably shaped, with high foot and quite horizontal handles. Ornamental geometric/floral decor on exterior friezes. Interior has narrative: Large decor area with groundline; narrative above and below do not need to be connected. Usually mythological narrative, but one has a historical representation of king overseeing weighing of expensive plant (560-550). Towards the end, a more “Athenian” style without a dividing line.

Question 18

Caeretan Style

Answer 18

530-500. Hydriai only. Short-lived. Immigrants from East Greece. Colorful, yet quality is rather poor. Shape never as perfect as Attic hydria. Mythological narrative in main decorative area. Rest is subdivided into friezes full of geometric and floral elements created with the help of stencils. Decoration not placed directly on vase surface but on an additional layer of black slip; that’s why some of the incisions appear black. Imaginative in choice of narratives.

Question 19

Chalkidian Style

Answer 19

550-500. Finest workshop out of the mainland during the Archaic. Most painters like adding inscriptions in Chalkidian dialect. Sudden appearance and disappearance. Usually large - amphorae, oinachoe, hydria, chalkidian krater (with lid and egg-shaped body). Ample use of red color/slip. Excellent quality: why did they stop?

Question 20

Chalkidian motifs

Answer 20

Narratives with horses
Well-shaped, fired. Special care of technical aspects. Most have two layers of slip. Vase of Herakles - are of transition between body and neck has frieze. Odysseus - a narrative never found on Attic vase. Use of horses to connect scenes of Diomedes and Odysseus.