Amphora With Lid

Panathenaic Prize Amphora with Lid (363-362 BCE) is a Greek ceramic vessel. It is a tall, curved Amphora. Shape with a narrow foot, two handles reaching from the neck to the upper shoulders. Also a tight fitting lid with a flame-like top. Most of the vase coloring is in black. The center part is painted red and it has black lining on top of the red painting. The vase is an Amphora shape. There is also a woman painted on the center of the vase holding a shield with a winged horse.
The Amphora is used to hold wine and other liquids, as well as Olive oil. The painting design is called red figure painting. Red figure painting was used in Greece hundreds of years ago, it was decorated on basic household design also. The red figure painting was invented by the potter Andokides around 530 B.C.E. The vase’s texture seems to be smoothed out and glazed over. The shape is very
These types of vases were used in Greece around the 500 B.C.E. Andokides wanted to change the painting technique. The earlier technique was black figure painting. Everything stayed the same in the work process but what was done differently is the painting of the figures on the vase. “The artist used the same black glaze for the figures, but instead of using the glaze to create silhouettes, the painted outlined the figures and then colored the background black.” (Kleiner, pg.119). Greek vases are mostly painted about historical moments that happened in the B.C. times. Many gods and goddesses are painted on them like Athena. “Very often the names identify the most obvious figure, an Athena or Herakles who really requires no identification…” said John Boardman. Also many gods and goddesses are originally from Greece like Herakles, Zeus, Athena, the famous Aphrodite and etc. There is a lot of history in Greece and it extends out for many, many