The Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens

About this book

In this book Professor Martin Robertson author of A History of Greek Art (CUP 1975) and A Shorter History of Greek Art (CUP 1981) draws together the results of a lifetimes study of Greek vase-painting tracing the history of figure-drawing on Athenian pottery from the invention of the "red-figure" technique in the later archaic period to the abandonment of figured vase-decoration two hundred years later. The book covers red-figure and also work produced over the same period in the same workshops in black-figure and other techniques especially that of drawing in outline on a white ground. This book is a major contribution to the history of Greek vase-painting and anyone seriously interested in the subject--whether scholar student curator collector or amateur--will find it essential reading.