In the Days of ancient Greece, huge amounts of pottery were produced to serve all the basic needs of daily life. ... black-figure painting was the predominant technique on Greek vases.

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 ...

More than 2,600 years after Athenian artists started one of the most influential revolutions in the history of art, few people recognize that there was ever such a consequential war of taste &mdash… ...

The black-figure technique of vase painting was invented in the city of Corinth around 700 B.C.E. ... Most pottery was made in sections and ... Ancient Greek potters and vase painters did not have ...

This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Attic pottery is the iconic red and black figure-pottery produced in ancient Greece ...

Just days before Christmas in 1959, construction workers in Taranto, Italy, came upon a large stone sarcophagus and pottery vessels in the black-figure style of ancient Greece. As was typical of ...