Bilingual vase painting is a special form of ancient Greek vase painting. The term, derived from linguistics, is essentially a metaphorical one; it describes vases that are painted both in the black-figure and in the red-figure techniques. It also describes the transitional period when black-figure was being gradually replaced in dominance by ...

2024年12月16日 · Bilingual vase painting is a special form of ancient Greek vase painting. The term, derived from linguistics, is essentially a metaphorical one; it describes vases that are painted both in the black-figure and in the red-figure techniques. It also describes the transitional period when black-figure was being gradually replaced in dominance by ...

Bilingual vase painting is a special form of ancient Greek vase painting. The term, derived from linguistics, is essentially a metaphorical one; it describes vases that are painted both in the black-figure and in the red-figure techniques.

A pottery vessel that is painted in both the black-figure and the red-figure techniques. Bilingual vases were produced in Athens in the last quarter of the sixth century BCE, a transitional period when black-figure was being gradually replaced by red-figure. The Andokides Painter and the Lysippides Painter.

2025年1月31日 · An interesting example of a “bilingual” Amphora, where the one side is painted with the Red-Figure technique and the other with Black-Figure, perhaps by two different painters, circa 520-500 BCE, made in Attica. ... Vase painting provided a visual medium to celebrate these heroic ideals and glorify the heroic feats of legendary warriors. ...

Evidence for Greek vases and vase painting includes: • the vases themselves, found in a variety of contexts. • painted images of daily life and mythological behavior. • images on vases depicting kilns, potters, and painters. • scientific analyses of ancient vases and replicated slip and gloss.

Some of the first artists to adopt the technique made so-called “bilingual” vases (with one side in each style), possibly to emphasize the difference between the two styles. The “Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game” by the Andokides Painter (ca. 525-520 BCE) is an example of such a work.

Several works by Psiax have inscriptions, and at least two identify him as painter. This is one of two cups on which hisname appears without a verb. Bilingual vases are particularly interesting because they juxtapose the old, black-figure, and the new, red-figure manner of …

Heracles wrestles the Nemean Lion as the first of his twelve labours. The hero throws the beast over his shoulder as the goddess Athena and youth Iolaus watch on. Athena holds a spear and wears a helm and serpent-trimmed aegis cape. Iolaus carries his uncle's sword and club--weapons of no use against the beast's impervious hide. Nemean Lion, Athena

The Andokides Painter has always featured prominently in scholarly debates over the attribution of bilingual vases. The dispute centers on the question of authorship of the black-figure paintings: whether each scene was produced by a different artist, or if the same hand painted both scenes in both techniques.