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General

Connoisseurship

General

  • Gibson-Wood, G., Studies in the Theory of Connoisseurship from Vasari to Morelli (London, 1980)

Athenian vases

  • Beazley, J.D., "Citharoedus", Journal of Hellenic Studies 42 (1922) 70-98
  • Robertson, C.M., "Adopting an Approach", Looking at Greek Vases, eds. Rasmussen, T and Spivey, N (Cambridge, 1991) 1-12
  • Kurtz, D.C., "Beazley and the Connoisseurship of Greek Vases", Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum 2 (1983) 237-250
  • Kurtz, D.C., "Gorges' cup, an Essay in the Connoisseurship of Greek Vases", Journal of Hellenic Studies 103 (1983) 68-86
  • Kurtz, D.C., The Berlin Painter (Oxford, 1983)
  • Rouet, P. Approaches to the study of Attic vases: Beazley and Pottier (Oxford, 2001)

Iconography

  • Bérard, C., A City of Images: Iconography and Society in Ancient Greece (Princeton, 1989).
  • Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (1991).
  • Carpenter, T.Dionysian Imagery in Archaic Greek Art: its development in Black-Figure Vase Painting (Oxford, 1986)
  • Carpenter, T. Dionysian Imagery in Fifth-Century Athens (Oxford, 1996)
  • Carter, J., 'The beginnings of narrative art in the Greek Geometric period', Annual of the British School at Athens 67 (1972) 25-58.
  • Cohen, B. (ed.) Not the Classical ideal: Athens and the construction of the Other in Greek Art (Leiden, 2000)
  • Hatzivassiliou, E., Athenian Black Figure Iconography between 510 and 475 B.C. (Rahden, 2010).
  • Hedreen, G.M. Silens in Attic black-figure vase-painting: myth and performance (Ann Arbor, 1992)
  • Isler-Kerényi, C. Dionysos in archaic Greece: an understanding through images (Leiden, 2006)
  • Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae.
  • Lissarrague, F. (ed.), The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet (Princeton, 1990)
  • Mitchell, A.G. Greek vase-painting and the origins of visual humour (Cambridge, 2009)
  • Moon, W.G. (ed.), Ancient Greek Art and Iconography (Wisconsin, 1983)
  • Moormann, E.M. and Stissi, V.V. (eds.) Shapes and Images: Studies on Attic Black Figure and Related Topics in Honour of Herman A. G. Brijder (Leuven, 2009)
  • Moraw, S. Die Mänade in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Mainz, 1998)
  • Murray, O. (ed.), Sympotica, a symposium on the Symposion (1990).
  • Norskov, V. et al. (eds.) The World of Greek Vases (Rome, 2009)
  • Oakley, J. and Palagia, O. (eds.), Athenian Potters and Painters Volume II (Oxford, 2009).
  • Pellegrini, E. Eros nella Grecia arcaica e classica: iconografia e iconologia (Rome, 2009)
  • Servadei, C. La figura di Theseus nella ceramica attica: iconografia e iconologia del mito nett’Atene arcaica e classica (Bologna, 2005)
  • Shapiro, A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989).
  • Shapiro, H.A. Myth into Art: Poet and Painter in Classical Greece (London, 1994).
  • Smith, T.J., Komast dancers in Archaic Greek Art (Oxford, 2010)
  • Stansbury-O’Donnell, M. Vase-painting, gender, and social identity in archaic Athens (Cambridge, 2006).
  • Taplin, O. Pots and plays: interactions between tragedy and Greek vase-painting of the fourth century B.C. (Malibu, 2007).
  • Trendall, A.D. and Webster, T.B.L., Illustrations of Greek Drama (1971).
  • Villanueva-Puig, M-C., Ménades: recherches sur la genèse iconographique du thiase féminin de Dionysos des origines à la fin de la période archaïque (Paris, 2009).
  • Walsh, D. Distorted ideals in Greek vase-painting: the world of mythological burlesque (Cambridge, 2009)

Inscriptions

The bibliography is a selection of relevant studies. Appendices to ABV, ARV, Para and Add list potter/painter inscriptions and kalos names.

Information regarding particular inscriptions can be obtained from Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), accessible via the Beazley Archive, as well as publications of the vessel in question, notably the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum.

  • Arena, R., Le Iscrizioni Corinzie su Vasi (Rome, 1967).
  • Beazley, J.D., "The New Corpus of Attic Red-figured Vases with Signatures", Burlington Magazine 39 (1921) 230-235.
  • __________, "Some Inscriptions on Vases I", AJA 31 (1927) 345-353.
  • __________, "Some Inscriptions on Vases II", AJA 33 (1929) 361-367.
  • __________, "Little Master Cups", JHS 52 (1932) 167-204.
  • __________, "Some Inscriptions on Vases III", AJA 39 (1935) 475-488.
  • __________, "Some Inscriptions on Vases IV", AJA 45 (1941) 593-602.
  • __________, "Some Inscriptions on Vases V", AJA 54 (1950) 310-322.
  • __________, "Some Inscriptions on Vases VI", AJA 58 (1954) 187-190.
  • __________, "Some Inscriptions on Vases VII", AJA 61 (1957) 5-8.
  • __________, "Some Inscriptions on Vases VIII", AJA 64 (1960) 219-225.
  • __________, "Potter and Painter in Ancient Athens", in Kurtz , D.C. (ed.), Greek Vases - Lectures by J.D. Beazley (Oxford, 1989) 39-59.
  • Bessi, B., "La Musica del Simposio: Fonti Letterarie e Rappresentazioni Vascolari", Istituto Universitario Orientale: Annali (Archeologia e Storia Antica) new series 4 (1997) 137-152.
  • Boardman, J., "The New Attic Potter", OJA 2 (1983) 247-248.
  • ___________, "Kaloi and other names on Euphronios' vases", in Cygielman, M. et al. (eds.), Euphronios. Atti del Seminario Internazionale di Studi ( Florence, 1992) 45-50.
  • ___________, "'Reading' Greek Vases?", OJA 22 (2003) 109-114.
  • von Bothmer, D., "Ἄμασις, Ἀμασίδος", The J.Paul Getty Museum Journal 9 (1981) 1-4.
  • Cohen, B., "The Literate Potter - a tradition of incised signatures on Attic vases", Metropolitan Museum Journal 26 (1991) 49-96.
  • Cook, R.M., "'Epoiesen' on Greek Vases", JHS 91 (1971) 137-138.
  • _________., Greek Painted Pottery 4 th ed. (London and New York, 1997) 241-248.
  • Csapo, E. and Miller, M.C., "The 'Kottabos-Toast' and an inscribed red-figured cup", Hesperia 60 (1991) 367-382.
  • Dover , J.K., Greek Homosexuality (London , 1978) (s.v . vase-inscriptions).
  • Eisman, M., "A further note on ΕΠΟΙΕΣΕΝ signatures", JHS 94 (1974) 172.
  • Engelmann, H., "Wie nie Euphronios", ZPE 68 (1987) 129-133.
  • Fellmann, B., "Schriftzeile und Beischrifte", in Vierneisel, K. and Kaeser, B. (eds.), Kunst der Schale - Kultur des Trinkens (Munich,1990) 90-95.
  • Frel, J., "Euphronios and his Fellows", in Moon, W.G. (ed.), Ancient Greek Art and Iconography (Wisconsin, 1983) 147-158.
  • Greifenhagen, A., "Smikros: Lieblinginschrift und Malersignatur", JahrBerlMus 9 (1967) 5-25.
  • Guarducci, M., Epigrafia Greca III ( Rome, 1974) 456-495.
  • Hurwit, J., "The Word in the Image: Orality, Literacy and Early Greek Art", Word and Image 6.2 (1990) 180-197.
  • Immerwahr, H.R., "Book rolls on Attic vases", in Henderson, C. (ed.), Classical, Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies in Honour of Berthold Louis Ullman (Rome, 1964) 17-48.
  • ______________, "Inscriptions on the Anacreon Krater in Copenhagen", AJA 69 (1965) 152-154.
  • ______________, "Stesagoras II", TAPA 103 (1972) 181-186.
  • ______________, "More book rolls on Attic vases", AK 16 (1973) 143-147.
  • ______________, "Stesagoras II. Addendum", TAPA 104 (1974) 167-168.
  • ______________, "A lekythos in Toronto and the Golden Youth of Athens", Studies in Attic Epigraphy, History and Topography. Hesperia Supplement 19 (1982) 59-65.
  • ______________, "The Signatures of Pamphaios", AJA 88 (1984) 341-352.
  • ______________, Attic Script: A Survey (Oxford, 1990).
  • ______________, "The Lettering of Euphronios", in Wehgartner, I. (ed.), Euphronios und seine Zeit (Berlin, 1992) 49-56.
  • Johnston , A.M., Trademarks on Greek Vases (Warminster, 1979).
  • Keuls, E., "The Social Position of Attic Vase-Painters and the Birth of Caricature", in Christiansen, T. and Melander, M. (eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Ancient Greek and Related Pottery, Copenhagen. August 31-September 4 1987 (Copenhagen, 1988) 310-313.
  • Kilmer, M.F., "In Search of the Wild Kalos-Name", Echos du Monde Classique 12 (1993) 173-199.
  • Klein, W., Die Griechischen Vasen mit Meistersignaturen (Vienna, 1887).
  • ________, Die Griechischen Vasen mit Lieblingsinschriften (Leipzig, 1898).
  • Kretschmer, P., Die Griechischen Vaseninschriften (1894).
  • Lissarrague, F., "Paroles d'images: remarques sur le functionnement de l' écriture dans l'imagerie attique", in Christin, A.M. (ed.), Écritures II ( Paris, 1985) 71-93.
  • ____________, "Graphein: écrire et dessiner", in Bron, C. and Kassapoglou, E. (eds.), L'image en jeu (Lausanne, 1992).
  • ____________, "Epiktetos egraphsen: the writing on the cup", in Goldhill, S. and Osborne, R. (eds.), Art and Text in Ancient Greek Culture (Cambridge, 1994) 12-27.
  • ____________, "Publicity and Peformance: Kalos inscriptions in Attic Vase-Painting", in Goldhill, S. and Osborne, R. (eds.), Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy (Cambridge, 1999) 359-373.
  • Lorber, F., Inschriften auf Korinthischen Vasen (Berlin, 1979).
  • Neer, R. T., Style and Politics in Athenian Vase Painting: The Craft of Democracy ca. 530-460 BCE (Cambridge, 2002) 87-123, 133-134.
  • Neumann, G., "Zu einige Beischriften auf M ünchner Vasen", AA (1977) 38-43.
  • Raubitschek, A., "Leagros", Hesperia 8 (1939) 155-164.
  • Rebillard, L., "Ex ékias apprend à écrire. Diffusion de l' écriture chez les artisans du Ceramique au VIe s. av. J.C. " in Baurain, C., Bonnet, C. and Krings, V. (eds.), Phoinikeia Grammata (Namur, 1991) 549-564.
  • Robertson, M., "'Epoiesen' on Greek vases: other considerations", JHS 92 (1972) 137-138.
  • Robinson, D.M. and Fluck, J., A Study of Greek Love Names (1937).
  • Rosati, R., "La nozione di 'propriet à dell'officina' e l'epoiesen nei vasi attici", Atti della Accademia delle Scienze dell'Instituto di Bologna, Classe di Scienze Morali 65 (1966-67) 45-73.
  • Schauenburg, K., "ΑΙΝΕΑΣ ΚΑΛΟΣ", Gymnasium 76 (1969) 42-53.
  • Seeberg, A., "Epoiesen, egrapsen and the organization of the vase-trade" JHS 114 (1994) 162-164.
  • Shapiro, H.A., "Hippokrates, son of Anaxileos", Hesperia 49 (1980) 289-293.
  • ___________, "Kallias Kratiou Alopekethen", Hesperia 51 (1982) 69-73.
  • ___________, "Epilykos Kalos", Hesperia 52 (1983) 303-310.
  • ___________, "Kalos Inscriptions with Patronymic", ZPE 68 (1987) 107-18.
  • Siebert, G., "Signatures d'artistes, d'artisans et de fabricants dans l'antiquit é classique", Ktema 3 (1978) 111-131.
  • Slater, N.W., "The Vase as Ventriloquist: jako | inscriptions and the culture of fame" in Mackay, E.A. (ed.), Signs of Orality (Leiden, 1999) 143-161.
  • Snodgrass, A.M., "The Uses of Writing on Early Greek Painted Pottery", in Rutter, N.K. and Sparkes, B.A. (eds.), Word and Image in Ancient Greece (Edinburgh, 2000) 22-34.
  • Talcott, L., "Vases and kalos names from an Agora Well", Hesperia 5 (1936) 333-354.
  • Tosto, V., The Black-Figured Pottery Signed ΜΙϑΟΡΗΕMΕΡ ΕΘΟΙΕΡΕΜ (Amsterdam, 1999) 173-192.
  • Wachter, R., "The Inscriptions on the François Vase", Museum Helveticum 48 (1991) 86-113.
  • __________, Non-Attic Greek Vase Inscriptions (Oxford, 2001).
  • Webster, T.B.L., Potter and Patron in Ancient Athens (London, 1972).
  • Werincke, K., Die Griechischen Vasen mit Lieblingsnamen (Berlin, 1890).

Shapes

The General Bibliography contains reference works on pottery shapes (asterisks indicate sources that are especially useful), and highlights some of the approaches in recent scholarship. The shape-specific bibliographies are designed for the specialist, but make no claim to completeness, and users' additions would be gratefully received. Many of the more recent volumes of Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum also contain relevant information about particular shapes.

For bibliography prior to 1935, see Richter, G.M.A., and Milne, M.J., Shapes and Names of Athenian Vases (New York, 1935).

General bibliography

Amphorae

Panathenaic prize amphorae

Neck-amphorae

Tyrrhenian-amphorae

Nikosthenic amphorae

Pelikai

Column-kraters

Volute-kraters

Calyx-kraters

Bell-kraters

Psykters

Lebetes and lebetes gamikoi

Loutrophoroi

Hydriai

Stamnoi

Oinochoai, olpai and choes

Kyathoi

Cups

Skyphoi, mastoi and mastoid cups

Kantharoi

Rhyta, figure-vases and head-vases

Phialai

Aryballoi

Lekythoi

Alabastra

Askoi

Pyxides and exaleiptra

Plates

Lekanis/lekane

Epinetra

Other shapes

Bail-oinochoai

Bobbins

Louterion

Lydion

Phormiskoi

Plaques

Stands and Supports

Athenian

  • Beazley, J.D., The Development of Attic Black-figure, (rev. ed. by D. von Bothmer and Mary Moore, 1986).
  • Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-figure Vase-painters (1956).
  • Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters (1963).
  • Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figured Vases in American Museums (1918).
  • Beazley, J.D., Greek Vases in Poland (1928).
  • Beazley, J.D., 'The little Master Cups', Journal of Hellenic Studies 52 (1932) 167-204.
  • Beazley, J.D., Potter and Painter in Ancient Athens (1944).
  • Beazley, J.D., Attic White Lekythoi (1946).
  • Beazley, J.D., 'Master of the Achilles Amphora in the Vatican', Journal of Hellenic Studies 34 (1914) 179-226.
  • Beazley, J.D., 'Citharoedus' Journal of Hellenic Studies 42 (1922) 70-98.
  • Beazley, J.D., The Berlin Painter (1930 and 1974).
  • Beazley, J.D., The Kleophrades Painter (1933 and 1974).
  • Beazley, J.D., The Berlin Painter (1932 and 1974).
  • Beazley, J.D., The Pan Painter (1931 and 1974).
  • Boardman, J., Athenian Black Figure Vases (1974).
  • Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases: the Archaic Period (1975).
  • Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases: the Classical Period (1989).
  • Bothmer, D. von., The Amasis Painter and his World (1985).
  • Burn, L., The Meidias Painter (1988).
  • Cambitoglou, A., The Brygos Painter (1968).
  • Cook, J.M., 'Protoattic pottery', Annual of the British School at Athens 35 (1934-5) 165-219.
  • Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figure Lekythoi (1936).
  • Kurtz. D.C., Athenian White Lekythoi: Patterns and Painters (1975).
  • Kurtz, D.C., 'Beazley and the connoisseurship of Greek vases', Greek Vases II, Occasional Papers, J. Paul Getty Museum (1985) 237-50.
  • Kurtz, D.C., The Berlin Painter (Oxford, 1989).
  • MacKay, E., Tradition and Originality: a study of Exekias (Oxford 2010).
  • Mannack, T. The late Mannerists in Athenian vase-painting (Oxford, 2001)
  • Matheson, S.B. Polygnotos and vase painting in classical Athens. (Madison, 1995)
  • Mertens, J., Attic White-ground - its development on shapes other than lekythoi (1977).
  • Moore, M.B. & Philippides, M.Z.P., Attic Black-figured Pottery, The Athenian Agora XXIII (1986).
  • Moormann, E.M. and Stissi, V.V. (eds.), Shapes and Images: Studies on Attic Black Figure and Related Topics in Honour of Herman A. G. Brijder (Leuven, 2009).
  • Neer, R.T. Style and politics in Athenian vase-painting: the craft of democracy, ca. 530-460 B.C.E. (Cambridge, 2002)
  • Oakley, J. The Achilles Painter (Mainz, 1997) .
  • Oakley, J. and Palagia, O. (eds.), Athenian Potters and Painters Volume II (Oxford, 2009).
  • Richter, G.M.A., Attic Red-figure Vases: a Survey (1958).
  • Richter, G.M.A., and Milne, M.J., Shapes and Names of Athenian Vases (1935).
  • Richter, G.M.A., The craft of Athenian Pottery (1923).
  • Sparkes, B.A. & Talcott, L., Black and Plain Pottery of the 6th, 5th and 4th centuries B.C., The Athenian Agora XII, (1970).
  • Stansbury-O’Donnell, M.Vase-painting, gender, and social identity in archaic Athens (Cambridge, 2006).
  • Webster, T.B.L., Potter and Patron in Classical Athens (1972).
  • Wehgartner, I., Attisch Weissgrundige Keramik (1983).

Boeotian

  • Kilinski, K., Boeotian Black Figure Vase Painting of the Archaic Period (Mainz, 1990).
  • Ruckert, A., Frühe Keramik Böotiens (Bern, 1976).

Corinthian

  • Amyx, D.A., Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period (1988).
  • Amyx, D.A., and Lawrence, P., Studies in Archaic Corinthian Vase Painting (Princeton, 1996).
  • Arafat, K. & Morgan, C., 'Pots and Potters in Athens and Corinth: a review', Oxford Journal of Archaeology 8 (1989) 311-46.
  • Payne, H.G.G., Necrocorinthia (1931).
  • Payne, H.G.G., Protocorinthian Vase Painting (1933).
  • Salmon, J.B., Wealthy Corinth: a history of the city to 338 B.C. (1984).

Chalcidian

  • Iozzo, M., Ceramica 'calcidese': nuovi documenti e problemi riproposti (Rome, 1994).
  • Rumpf, A., Chalkidische Vasen (1927).

East Greek

  • Cook, R.M., East Greek Pottery (London, 1997).
  • Cook, R.M., Clazomenian Sarcophagi (1981).
  • Cook, R.M., 'Fikellura Pottery', Annual of the British School at Athens 34 (1933/4) 1-99.
  • Cook, R.M., 'A list of Clazomenian Vases', Annual of the British School at Athens 47 (1952) 123-152.
  • Lemos, A.A., Archaic Pottery of Chios (Oxford, 1991).
  • Shefton, B.B., 'East Greek influences in sixth century Attic vase-painting and some Laconian traits', Greek Vases IV, Occasional Papers, J. Paul Getty Museum (1989) 41-72.
  • Tuna-Nörling, Y., Die attisch-schwarzfigurige Keramik und der attische Keramikexport nach Kleinasien (Tübingen,1995).

Etruscan

  • Rasmussem, T., 'Etruscan shapes in Attic pottery', Antike Kunst 28 (1985) 33-9.

Laconian

  • Lane, E.A., 'Lakonian Vase Painting', Annual of the British School at Athens 34 (1933/34) 99-189.
  • Pipili, M., Laconian Iconography (1987).
  • Stibbe, C.M., Lakonische Vasenmaler des sechsten Jahrhunderts v.Chr. (Amsterdam, 1972).
  • Stibbe, C.M., Laconian Drinking Vessels and Other Open Shapes (Amsterdam, 1994).

South Italian

  • Denoyelle, M., et al (eds.) Le céramique Apulienne: bilan et perspectives (Naples, 2005)
  • Mayo, M.E., The Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia (1982).
  • Taplin, O. Pots and plays: interactions between tragedy and Greek vase-painting of the fourth century B.C. (Malibu, 2007).
  • Trendall, A.D., Red-figure Vases of Southern Italy and Sicily (1989).
  • Trendall, A.D., Early South Italian Vase Painting (1974).
  • Trendall, A.D., South Italian Vase-painting (1966).
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