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Title Patterns in the production of Apulian red-figure Pottery / by Edward Herring
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 186 pages)
Contents Background to the study -- Patterns of production -- Patterns in iconography: the generic scenes -- Patterns in iconography: drama, myth, and the gods -- Patterns in iconography: celebrating Indigenous life and commemorating the dead -- Conclusions
Summary Most of the previous scholarship on Apulian red-figure pottery has focused on the cataloguing of collections, the attribution of vases to painters and workshops, iconographic and stylistic matters, and individual vessels and vase forms. This partly reflects the history of vase-painting scholarship, which grew out of antiquarian collecting during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the fact that a full archaeological provenance is not preserved for the overwhelming majority of vessels. This book takes a different approach by using a database containing in excess of 13,500 vessels and f
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Vases, Red-figured -- Greece
Vases, Red-figured -- Italy
Pottery, Greek -- Greece
Pottery, Greek -- Italy
Vase-painting -- Mediterranean Region
History of art: ancient & classical art, BCE to c 500 CE.
Classical Greek & Roman archaeology.
ART -- Ceramics.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- Pottery & Ceramics.
Antiquities
Pottery, Greek
Vase-painting
Vases, Red-figured
Keramikherstellung
Rotfigurige Vasenmalerei
SUBJECT Mediterranean Region -- Antiquities
Subject Greece
Italy
Mediterranean Region
Apulien
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781527517967
1527517969