Bilingual vases
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Bilingual belly amphora, Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 2301, around 520 BC Chr.
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As a bilingual vases ( bilinguals ) in the are classical archeology in Athens crafted vases called, painting both in black-figure as well as in red-figure technique show. The term bilingual is borrowed from philology, where it means bilingualism. These works were created in the transition from black to red-figure vase painting in the last quarter of the 6th century BC. BC Almost exclusively abdominal amphorae of the so-called type A and eye cups were decorated as bilinguals. In some cases, both sides of the amphora show the same theme in different styles (as in a belly amphora by the Andokides painter in Munich). The eye cups usually have a black-figure interior and red-figure exterior. An exception is a bowl by the Andokides painter in Palermo . Half of the outside is decorated using both techniques. In addition to the Andokides painter, Psiax (especially for abdominal amphorae) as well as Epiktet and Oltos (eye cups) are of particular importance. Usually the drawings in both styles are done by the same artist. However, this is particularly controversial in the case of the red-figure Andokides painter, who is identified by some researchers with the black-figure Lysippides painter , others see it as two different artists.
literature
- Beth Cohen : Attic bilingual vases and their painters . Garland, New York 1978, ISBN 0-8240-3220-9 .
- Irma Wehgartner : Bilingual vases. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp. 677.
- Beth Cohen: Bilingual Vases and Vase-Painters . In: The Colors of clay. Special techniques in Athenian vase painting . Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum 2007, ISBN 0-89236-571-4 , pp. 18-42.
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Remarks
- ↑ Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale , inventory number V 650 .