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Douris and the Painters of Greek Vases

Chapter 16: Transcriber’s Note
By Edmond Pottier
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A scholarly monograph examines the vase painter Douris and his contemporaries, arguing that their images enact myth and artistic intent rather than simply illustrating literary texts. It reconstructs the social position of vase painters, studio practice, and technical procedures, and presents close analyses of signature vases to trace compositional habits, figural style, and decorative motifs. Mythological scenes are read as expressions of collective thought rendered in line and colour, and the study connects these readings to broader questions about the autonomy and development of Greek vase-painting. A concluding discussion synthesizes evidence to show how individual painters shaped the evolution of red-figure technique.

Transcriber’s Note

Punctuation, hyphenation of individual compound words, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. The book’s hyphenation patterns were inconsistent.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unpaired quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unpaired.

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.

The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

Page xiv: “Wiener Vorlegeblätten” should be “Wiener Vorlegeblätter”.

Page 87: “Ephéméris archoléogique d’Athènes” should be “Ephéméris archéologique d’Athènes”.

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