Papers on Special Techniques in Athenian Vases

Lapatin Kenneth

In June 2006, the J. Paul Getty Museum hosted an international symposium to coincide with the exhibition The Colours of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases. The themes of the exhibition – vases executed in bilingual, coral-red gloss, outline, Kerch-style, white-ground, and Six's technique, as well as examples with added clay and gilding, and sculpted vases and additions – form the basis for the essays in this volume. "Papers on Special Techniques in Athenian Vases" brings together more than twenty papers by renowned scholars that examine subjects as diverse as Social Contexts for Athenian Vases, Conservation and Analysis, Experimentation, and Markets and Exchange.

About the author

Kenneth Lapatin is associate curator in the Department of Antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum. He is the editor of "The Berthouville Silver Treasure and Roman Luxury" (Getty Publications, 2014), and co-editor of "The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection" (Getty Publications, 2012).

Reviews

"A significant contribution to our growing understanding of these specific kinds of vessels, as well as to our understanding of Greek vases generally" – Bryn Mawr. Classical Review