Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sarpedon, Near East, Red

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Robert Stanley Brown

Document Summary

Art from dark age to archaic period: our evidence is principally in the form of grave goods vase- painting. Images can influence without need to understand a language: from 11th to 8th centuries bc vases were decorated without images, after ca 750 bc a new style emerges with increasing emphasis on figures and scenes of action. Late geometric period (ca 750-700bc) geometric used bc of character of the decorations geometric patterns. Orientalizing" usually used when we can detect the influence from the ancient near. Range from large storage vessels to serving vessels greeks liked to serve wine. Customary to cut wine with water bc of its high alcohol content - done in kraters functional. Invented ca 720 bc at corinth (perfected at athens) Lines incised into a silhouette with addition of red and white. The human figure was drawn with increasing naturalism: red-figure. Decorations are left in the clay colour (i. e. red) and the background is painted black.