The style is characterized by drawn red figures and a painted black background.
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Red figure pottery is a style of greek vase painting that was invented in athens around 530 bce.
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Black figure pottery became very popular and was a major trade item all across the mediterranean from syria to italy.
The firing process of both red and black figure vessels consisted of three stages.
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700 bce and then adopted by pottery painters in attica where it would become the dominant decorative style from 625 bce and allow athens to dominate the mediterranean pottery market for the next 150 years.
During the first oxidizing stage air was allowed into the kiln turning the whole vase the color of the clay.
700 bce and continued to be popular until the advent of red figure pottery c.
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.
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The high quality of the vases as well as the new style of decorations.
Black figure pottery painting also known as the black figure style or black figure ceramic greek μελανόμορφα melanomorpha is one of the styles of painting on antique greek vases it was especially common between the 7th and 5th centuries bc although there are specimens dating as late as the 2nd century bc.
The finishing details were incised into the black.
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The earliest stylistic period is the geometric lasting from about 1000 to 700 bce this period is further broken down into a proto geometric transition from mycenaean forms.
530 bce in black figure painting figures and ornamentation were drawn on the natural clay surface of a vase in glossy black pigment.
In this period the surface of the pot was completely covered with a network of fine patterns in which circles and arcs predominate.
Laconia was a third albeit minor producer of the style in the.
Ancient greek black figure pottery named after the colour of the depictions on the pottery was first produced in corinth c.
In the subsequent stage green wood was introduced into the chamber and the oxygen supply was reduced causing the object to turn black in the smoky.