Terracotta Lekythos: Dionysos with a Satyr and GoatGreek, Attic; Classical, ca. 480 BCAttributed to
Terracotta Lekythos: Dionysos with a Satyr and GoatGreek, Attic; Classical, ca. 480 BCAttributed to the Workshop of the Bowdoin PainterTerracotta; black-figure, white-groundThe Metropolitan Museum of Art** Visit my Links page for my other blogs & Facebook PagesThe decoration on the body is executed in a combination of black silhouette and outline drawing on a white ground. Such works, known as semioutline lekythoi, are associated with the workshops of two closely related artists, the Bowdoin Painter and the Athena Painter. The technique represents a modification of black-figure at a time when red-figure was gaining popularity. -- source link
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