Papers on Special Techniques in Athenian Vases

by Kenneth Lapatin

Overview

The papers in this volume derive from the proceedings of an international symposium held at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa in June 2006 in connection with the exhibition The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases. The themes of the exhibition—vases executed in bilingual, coral-red gloss, outline, Kerch-style, white ground, and Six's technique, as well as examples with added clay and gilding, and plastic vases and additions—are the touchstones for the essays. More than twenty papers by renowned scholars are grouped under such general rubrics as Social Contexts for Athenian Vases in Special Techniques, Conservation, Analysis, and Experimentation, Artists, Workshops, and Production, and Markets and Exchange.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780892369010
Publisher:	Getty Publications
Publication date:	08/25/2008
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	7.70(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Kenneth Lapatin is Associate Curator of Antiquity at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Editorial Reviews

A significant contribution to our growing understanding of these specific kinds of vessels, as well as to our understanding of Greek vases generally.”—Bryn Mawr Classical Review

“A valuable collection of papers that demonstrate the diversity and luster that top-class Athenian vases display.”—Minerva 

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