The Red and the Black

Studies in Greek Pottery

Brian A. Sparkes

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134525584
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art General

The Red and the Black covers the major stages in the history of Greek pottery production, both figured and plain, as they are understood today. It provides an up-to-date evaluation of ways of studying Greek pottery and encourages new approaches.
There is a detailed analysis of the subject matter of figured scenes covering some of the main preoccupations of ancient Greece: myth, fantasy and everyday life. Furthermore, it sets the artefacts in the context of the societies that produced them, highlighting the social, art historical, mythological and economic information that can be revealed from their study.
This volume also covers a hitherto neglected area: the history of the collecting of Greek pottery through the Renaissance and up to the present day. It shows how market values have gradually increased to the high prices of today and goes on to take a closer look at the enthusiasm of the collectors.

SUBJECT INDEX

Achilles 12, 41, 59, 98, 100, 125, 133, 155

the Achilles Painter IX, XV–XVI, 21, 98, 100, Figs I: 12, IV: 5

Acrocup 150

Acropolis, Athens 80, 94, 104, 110, 155, 155, 156

Actaeon 96

Adam, death of 40–1, Fig. II: 5

Admetos 71, 131

Aegina 133, 134

Aeschylus 130

the Affecter (vase-painter) 167

the Agora of Athens 27, 28, 30, 67, 74, 76, 78, 79, 82, 86, 102, 141

Agrigento 56

Ajax 59

alabaster 72, 74, Fig. III: 6

alabastron (-a) 7, 9, 72, 74, 170, Fig. III: 6

Albrizzi, Arabella 51

Alcestis 71–2, 76, 119, 130–1, 133

Alexander (the Great) 30

Alexandros (= Paris) 125

Ali-Baba jars 31, 66–7, 78

Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence 61

the Altamura Painter, manner of XIII, Fig. III: 5

Amasis (potter) 14, 95, 101

the Amasis Painter IX, XIII, 101, 152, Figs I: 7, III: 7

Amazons 12, 137–8

amphora (-ae) passim, Figs I: 3, II: 15, IV: 2, 4, 5, V: 2, VI: 17

Ampurias (N.E. Spain) 166

Amyklai, throne at 126

Anacreon 134

Andokides (potter) IX, 16, 103, Fig. I: 10

the Andokides Painter IX, 16, Fig. I: 10

Andrelini, Fausto 45

Andromeda 130

animal friezes 7, 8, 11

the Anthesteria 77

Antiochis 83

Aphrodite 71, 125, 127, 128

the Aphrodite Bowl, the Painter of IX, Fig. I: 9

Apollo 19

Apollodoros Bibliothekē III.23 159

Apollonios of Rhodes Argon...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication page
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• Preface
• List of abbreviations
• Timeline
• I ‘That Great Curse of Archaeology’
• II ‘Commonly Called Etruscan Vases’
• III ‘Watched Pots’
• IV ‘A Very Curious Phenomenon’
• V ‘What Men or Gods are These?’
• VI ‘Where Archaeology Begins, Art Ceases’
• Profiles of vases
• Bibliography
• Index