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An Apulian (Italy) Red-Figure Pseudo-Panathenaic Amphora…
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Perth
Date:
23-Nov-2008
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An Apulian (Italy) Red-Figure Pseudo-Panathenaic Amphora Depiction of the head of a woman and a winged female figure (Nike). Attributed to the Foggia group of painters. Circa 400BC - 300BC Painted earthenware Height: 57 cm; diameter: 26 cm. Reference: A.D. Trendall, 'Red-Figure Vases of South Italy and Sicily', 1989 Note: Apulia, a Greek city-state in Southern Italy, was a centre for the manufacture of pottery. Initially dominated by the Athenian tradition, it soon developed a style of its own; red-figure ware. Apulian vases of the 'plain' style were decorated with simple compositions, many with the head of a woman, flanked by palmettes. However, by the end of the fourth century BC, it is clear that the Apulian red-figure style had worked itself out and its painters had exhausted their resources. The death throes are to be seen in vases that lack any traces of originality. Vases of the Foggia group display execrable drawing and pattern work. They are clumsy, with emphasis on the frontal sinus, a wavy line for the mouth and a badly-drawn eye
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