Papers on special techniques in Athenian vases : proceedings of a symposium held in connection with the exhibition The colors of clay: special techniques in Athenian vases, at the Getty Villa, June 15-17, 2006 / edited by Kenneth Lapatin.

Other author Lapatin, Kenneth D. S.
Format Book
Publication InfoLos Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, ©2008.
Descriptionxii, 242 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Subjects
Vases, Greek--Greece. --Athens. --Congresses.
Vase-painting, Greek--Greece. --Athens. --Congresses.
Vases, Ancient--Greece. --Athens. --Congresses.
Pottery--Technique. --Congresses.

Contents The colors of clay: combining special techniques on Athenian vases / Beth Cohen -- Why special techniques? / Brian A. Sparkes -- Six's technique and Etruscan Bucchero / Herman A. G. Brijder -- The colors of the Akropolis: special techniques for Athena / Annie Verbanck-Piérard -- "Women are white": white ground and the attic funeral / Jenifer Neils -- Objects of affection: genre and gender on some Athenian vases / Claire L. Lyons -- Observations and theories on the technical development of coral-red gloss / Jeffrey P. Maish -- A preliminary investigation of coral-red glosses found on attic Greek pottery / M. S. Walton, E. Doehne, K. Trentelman, and G. Chiari -- Ferrous and ferric: a review of scientific research on the iron in attic Greek glazes / Richard Newman -- Recovery and revival of attic vase-decoration techniques: what can they offer archaeological research? / Eleni Aloupi-Siotis -- Re-creating and firing a Greek kiln / Lisa C. Kahn and John C. Wissinger -- The colors of Psiax / Joan R. Mertens -- Of rams, women, and orientals: a brief history of attic plastic vases / Susanne Ebbinghaus -- Some thoughts on the potters and painters of plastic vases before Sotades / Dyfri Williams -- Clay, gold, and craft: special techniques in three vases by the Eretria painter and their Apotheosis in Xenophantos / Adrienne Lezzi-Hafter -- Color for a market? Special techniques and distribution patterns in late Archaic and early Classical Greece / Athena Tsingarida -- Athenian vases in special techniques in Magna Graecia and Sicily, and their influence on local production / Martine Denoyelle -- Special vases in Etruria first- or secondhand? / Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen -- Taste at the periphery of the Greek world: the Iberian peninsula and the Black Sea / Friederike Fless.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008004739
ISBN9780892369010 (pbk.)
ISBN0892369019 (pbk.)