Vase-painting

Noble, J. V. (1987, 1965), The Technique of Attic Vase Painting, Watton Guptill, New York. 

Fischer, M. 2013. Ancient Greek Prostitutes and the Textile Industry in Attic Vase-Painting ca. 550-450 b.c.e. Classical World 106 219-59. 

Rabinowitz, N. 2002. Excavating Women s Homoeroticism in Ancient Greece The Evidence from Attic Vase Painting. In Among Women From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World, edited by N. Rabinowitz and L. Auanger, pp. 106-66. Austin. 

Archaeological Artifacts. A Lekythos Greek vase (500 years b.c.) was analyzed by backscattering Mbssbauer spectroscopy [365, 366]. This Lekythos vase has three black human figures with small red-painted details painted on a yellow-fired clay... 

But the link between painterly illusion and the clear vessel is not merely casual, and we can trace it back at least to fourteenth- and fifteenth-century images. In the narrative of the Annunciation, God casts his shadow on Mary. The clear vase—or, for our purposes, the (alchemical) vas— signifies, in Dutch painting, the purity of Mary. Light penetrates the glass as God penetrates her womb (sometimes called vas clausum). Millard Meiss explains ... 

And when they proceeded to apply painting to their beauti- fully formed vases, the Greeks did more than Increase their commercial value, and improve their appearance as objects of daily use. The vases thus were empowered to transmit to distant ages the traditions of the Greek schools of art and they became an inexhaustible source for illustrating the mythology, the manners, customs, and literature of Greece. 

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