The black-figure technique of vase painting was invented in the city of Corinth around 700 B.C.E. It was around this time that Corinthian vase painters began adorning their vessels with animal friezes ...

This Etruscan vase has been subject to many interpretations in the past. It is decorated in the black-figure technique that originated in the Greek city of Corinth, but was adapted throughout ...

Black-figure vases are made by decorating a terra cotta pot with black-gloss silhouettes, detailed with incised lines, which contrast with the orange clay of the vessel’s body.

Athenian Potters and Painters: Greek Vases from Virginia Collections opens at The College of William & Mary's Muscarelle Museum of Art on August 18, 2012. The exhibit features vases on loan from ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is using modern technology to stir appreciation for ancient artistry — including an Athenian potter’s transformative “discovery” of red.

A new optical illusion challenges perception, featuring two black shapes on a cream background. Initially seen as a vase, the image can also reveal two human faces, highlighting the brain's ...

Mertens is the author of “How to Read Greek Vases” (2011), and will lead a discussion on “Chariots in Attic Black-figure Vase painting: Antecedents and Ramifications.” Guest speakers hail from ...

On one side of the black-figure vase is a chariot scene featuring Hermes, Leto and her divine twins, Apollo and Artemis. The other side depicts the wine god Dionysius and a retinue of satyrs and ...

An Athenian vase fragment on offer, from a later red-figure example of around 420BC, represents an armoured Amazon, one of the race of proud warrior women who were the scourge of ancient Greece ...

Tracks the change in total value of sales, as well as the total number of lots offered and sold annually in the art market. This chart shows whether Jacques Chapiro’s total sales are going up, and if ...

A major source of evidence for ancient Greece is painted pottery. The two most popular decorative styles are black-figure vase painting, practiced in the late 7th and 6th centuries B.C.E., and ...