THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Ceramics | Technique | Black figure
1. CERAMICS. Greece.
Black-figure kylix with a winged Nike holding a wreath.
Boeotia.
475—450 BCE.
Inv. No. ΝΓ 381.
Athens, Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art.
2. CERAMICS. Greece.
Achilles puts on the armour forged by Hephaestus.
Peleus the father of Achilles, Achilles, Thetis the mother of Achilles, his son Neoptolemus (Pyrrhus) are represented.
Black-figure dish.
Clay.
Inv. No. 507.
Athens, National Archaeological Museum.
3. CERAMICS. Greece.
François vase.
Black-figure crater. Attic.
Second quarter of the 6th century BCE.
Inv. No. 4209.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum.
4. CERAMICS. Greece.
François vase.
Black-figured volute krater. Attic.
Ca. mid-6th cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 4209.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum.
5. CERAMICS. Greece.
François vase.
Black-figured volute krater. Attic.
560 BCE.
Inv. No. 4209.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum.
6. CERAMICS. Greece.
François vase. Detail: the handle with representation of winged Animal Mistress (upper register), and Ajax carrying the dead Achilles (lower register).
Black-figured volute krater. Attic.
560 BCE.
Inv. No. 4209.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum.
7. CERAMICS. Greece.
François vase.
Black-figured volute krater. Attic.
Ca. mid-6th cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 4209.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum.
8. CERAMICS. Greece.
François vase.
Black-figured volute krater. Attic.
Ca. mid-6th cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 4209.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum.
9. CERAMICS. Greece.
François vase: side B with scenes of centauromachy.
Black-figured volute krater. Attic.
Ca. mid-6th cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 4209.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum.
10. CERAMICS. Greece.
François vase: side AB, with scenes from Peleus’ wedding; Procession of the Gods (Zeus and Hera).
Black-figured volute krater. Attic.
Ca. mid-6th cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 4209.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum.
11. CERAMICS. Greece.
Birth of Athena from the head of Zeus.
Black-figure neck-amphora. Attic.
Attributed to the Antimenes Painter.
Clay.
Ca. 510 BCE.
Inv. No. 1837,0609.27.
London, British Museum.
12. CERAMICS. Greece.
Battle between Heracles and the Amazons.
Black-figure neck-amphora. Attic.
Attributed to the Antimenes Painter.
Clay.
Ca. 510 BCE.
Inv. No. 1837,0609.27.
London, British Museum.
13. CERAMICS. Greece.
Maidens wearing water from a spring.
Black-figured hydria. Attic.
Ca. 530—510 BCE.
Attributed to the Antimenes Painter.
Inv. No. 1843,1103.66.
London, British Museum.
14. CERAMICS. Greece.
Maidens wearing water from a spring.
Black-figured hydria. Attic.
Ca. 530—510 BCE.
Attributed to the Antimenes Painter.
Inv. No. 1843,1103.66.
London, British Museum.
15. CERAMICS. Greece.
Heracles fighting the Lernaean Hydra.
Aryballos. Corinth.
Terracotta. Ca. 600—575 BCE.
Inv. No. 92.AE.4.
Los Angeles, John Paul Getty Museum, Getty Villa in Malibu.
16. CERAMICS. Greece.
Achilles and Ajax playing a board game.
(Achilles on the left; Ajax on the right, between them stands Athena.)
Black-figure neck-amphora. Attic.
Attributed to the Leagros Group Painter.
Clay.
Ca. 510 BCE.
Inv. No. 86.AE.81.
Los Angeles, John Paul Getty Museum, Getty Villa in Malibu.
17. CERAMICS. Greece.
Bellerophon, Pegasus, and the Chimera.
Black-figure kylix. Lakonia.
Attributed to the Boreads Painter (Greek (Lakonian), active 575—550 BCE).
Terracotta.
Ca. 570—565 BCE.
Inv. No. 85.AE.121.
Los Angeles, John Paul Getty Museum, Getty Villa in Malibu.
18. CERAMICS. Greece.
Dionysos reclining with a rhyton on a ship sailing among dolphins.
Red-figure eye-kylix (type A). Attic.
Signed by the potter and the painter Exekias.
Clay.
Ca. 530 BCE.
Inv. Nos. 2044 / 8729 / J 339 / KM 3179.
Munich, State Antique Collection.
19. CERAMICS. Greece.
Dionysos reclining with a rhyton on a ship sailing among dolphins.
Red-figure eye-kylix (type A). Attic.
Signed by the potter and the painter Exekias.
Clay.
Ca. 530 BCE.
Inv. Nos. 2044 / 8729 / J 339 / KM 3179.
Munich, State Antique Collection.
20. CERAMICS. Greece.
Battle over the body of a fallen hero.
Red-figure eye-kylix (type A). Attic.
Signed by the potter and the painter Exekias.
Clay.
Ca. 530 BCE.
Inv. Nos. 2044 / 8729 / J 339 / KM 3179.
Munich, State Antique Collection.