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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lapatin, Kenneth D. S.
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, [2008], ©2008.
Subjects:
Vases, Greek > Greece > Athens > Congresses.
Vase-painting, Greek > Greece > Athens > Congresses.
Vases, Ancient > Greece > Athens > Congresses.
Pottery > Technique > Congresses.
Genre:
Congresses.
Physical Description:xii, 242 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Format: Book
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.