22 - Vase Painting Outside Attica Flashcards
General dates of Corinthian style
Protocorinthian: 720-630
Transitional: 630-620
Corinthian: 620-525
Early Protocorinthian
720-690. Use of outline for some figures rather than silhouette begins. Massive production of the aryballos; the spherical shape was the most popular
Middle Protocorinthian
690-650. Use of some incision in areas of the animal. Invention of black-figure technique. Egg-shaped aryballos
Late Protocorinthian
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.
Athens vs Corinth
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.
LPC masterpiece
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?
Transitional Period
630-620. Artists are taking a step back and lightening the composition and decor. Going back to animal friezes.
Early Corinthian
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.
Middle Corinthian
590-570. Human figures take over. This period is when Corinthians realize that Athens is taking over Meditteranean trade.
Late Corinthian
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.
Wild Goat Style
Develops in Eastern Greece - Miletos, Samos. Tripartitle division into early, middle, and late.
Early Wild Goat Style
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.
Middle Wild Goat Style
630-600.
Late Wild Goat Style
600-570.
Chian Style
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.
Laconian Style
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
Laconian Style Kylix
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.
Caeretan Style
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.
Chalkidian Style
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?
Chalkidian motifs
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.
