Attic red-figure pottery
Cerámica ática de figuras rojas
- Date
- c. 520 BCE · confidence medium
- Place
- Athens, Attica, Greece
- Credited to
- Andokides Painter (for the potter Andokides)
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
Reversing the black-figure technique, the new style left the figures in the natural colour of the clay and painted the background black, allowing far richer internal detail: three-quarter views, more natural anatomy and drapery.
Specific authorship is debated: it is conventionally attributed to the anonymous "Andokides Painter", who worked for the potter Andokides (the person named in Wikidata); both also painted "bilingual" vases combining the two techniques.
What it led to
- Near-total replacement of black-figure pottery within a few decades
- Dominance of fine Attic pottery across the Mediterranean
- "Bilingual" vases combining both techniques on the same piece
Built on
- Black-figure pottery