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Douris and the Painters of Greek Vases

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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1. Kantharos and Kylix (drinking cups) by Douris. Brussels and Louvre Museums. Taken from Photographs Frontis­piece
2. Workshop of a Vase Painter (red figured hydria in Caputi Collection at Ruvo), from Blümner. Technologie und Terminolog. der Gewerbe und Künste, ii., p. 85, Fig. 15 4
3. The painter Smikros and his companions (red figured krater in the Brussels Museum), from Monuments et Mémoires de la Fondation Piot (article by C. Gaspari, ix., 1902, Pl. 2) 8
4. A Potter’s Workshop; modelling and baking of vases (black-figured hydria, Munich Museum), from Birch, “History of Ancient Pottery,” 1858, p. 249 12
5. A display of Vases and a purchaser (red figured kylix painted by Phintias, Baltimore Museum). Hartwig’s Meisterschalen, Pl. 17 16
6. Youths exercising in the Palæstra (red figured kylix by Douris, Louvre Museum), from an original Photograph 20
7. Aphrodite upon her Swan (Polychrome on white background, British Museum), from A. Murray and A. Smith, “White Attic Vases,” Pl. 15 24
8. Eos carrying Memnon, her dead son (red figured kylix by Douris, Louvre Museum), from an original Photograph 28
9. Contest of Menelaos and Paris (exterior of preceding one), from an original Photograph 32
10. Contest of Ajax and Hector (exterior of preceding one), from an original Photograph 36
11. The Adventures of Theseus (red figured kylix by Douris, British Museum), from E. d’Eichthal et Th. Reinach Poèmes choisis de Bacchylide, p. 48 40
12. Theseus and Kerkyon; Theseus and the Marathonian bull (reverse of red figured cup by the potter Euphronios, in the Louvre Museum) taken from Furtwängler & Reichhold Griechische Vasenmalerei, Pl. 5 44
13. Nereids appealing to Nereus and Doris (red figured cup by Douris, Louvre Museum), taken from Wiener Vorlegeblätten, vii., Pl. 2 48
14. Sileni playing and dancing (red figured vase by Douris, British Museum) Furtwängler & Reichhold Griechische Vasenmalerei, Pl. 48 52
15. Hera and Iris attacked by Sileni (red figured cup by Brygos, British Museum), Furtwängler & Reichhold Griechische Vasenmalerei, Pl. 17 54
16. Contest of Ajax and Ulysses; the voting of the Greek Chiefs (red figured cup by Douris, Vienna Museum), Furtwängler & Reichhold Griechische Vasenmalerei, Pl. 54 56
17. Ulysses restoring the Arms of Achilles to Neoptolemos (interior of preceding one), Furtwängler & Reichhold Griechische Vasenmalerei, Pl. 54 60
18. Achilles killing Troïlos (red figured cup by Euphronios, Perugia Museum) taken from Rayet et Collignon, Céramique Grecque, Fig. 70 64
19. Soldiers arming (red figured cup by Douris, Vienna Museum), Furtwängler & Reichhold, Pl. 53 68
20. Greek Hoplite and Persian Standard-bearer (red figured cup by Douris, Louvre Museum), Wiener Vorlegeblätten, vii., Pl. 3. Great surface indicates restoration 70
21. Seated Youth holding a Hare (red figured kylix by Douris, Louvre Museum), from an original Photograph 72
22. Interior of a School (red figured kylix by Douris, Berlin Museum), from Monumenti dell’ Inst. Arch., ix., Pl. 54 76
23. A Schoolmaster. Berlin Museum, from Hartwig, Meisterschalen, Pl. 46 80
24. Zeus carrying off a Woman (attributed to Douris, Louvre Museum), from an original Photograph 84
25. A Painter at Work (fragment, Boston Museum), Jahrbuch des Arch. Instituts, xiv., 1899, Pl. 4, Hartwig 86