The eumenides painter was so named because of his topic the oresteia.
Attic red figure pottery.
530 bce in black figure painting figures and ornamentation were drawn on the natural clay surface of a vase in glossy black pigment.
Red figure pottery grew in popularity and by the early 5th century bce it had all but replaced black figure pottery as the predominant pottery type in athens.
The style is characterized by drawn red figures and a painted black background.
Attic pottery was exported to magna graecia and even etruria the preference for attic vases led to the development of local south italian and etrurian workshops or schools strongly influenced by attic style but producing exclusively for local markets.
In the 5th century attic fine pottery now predominantly red figure maintained its dominance in the markets.
Red figure with purple white dilute washes and gilding style.
Later classical ornate subject s.
700 bce and continued to be popular until the advent of red figure pottery c.
The dioscouroi castor and pollux abduct the daughters of leucippus from a sanctuary of aphrodite.
The last recorded examples of attic red figure pottery are.
Black figure pottery type of greek pottery that originated in corinth c.
Pottery painters in greek colonized southern italy followed the red figure attic pottery model and expanded on it beginning in the mid fifth century b c.
Attic potters benefitted from the excellent iron rich clay found in attica.
This is a photo of a red figure bell krater 380 370 showing clytemnestra trying to awaken the erinyes.
With over 20 000 extant pieces attic black figure vases comprise the largest and at the same time most significant vase collection second only to attic red figure vases.