Description: An examination of the development of Greek vase-painting from the eighth to the fifth century B.C., with particular emphasis on the Archaic pottery of Athens and Corinth. We will work extensively with the collection of Greek vases at the University of Pennsylvania Museum and will also consider issues related to collection management, conservation, and display.
The course will consist of lecture and discussion classes, which will meet in Jaffe 104. We will also meet from time to time in the Mediterranean Section of the Museum to work with vases in the collection.
Course Requirements: Class attendance and participation. Written assignments will consist of four essays or reviews and a final long paper based on a class presentation at the end of the semester.
Reserve Books: A list of the books that are on reserve for this course follows. Books are on reserve in both the Fine Arts Library and the University of Pennsylvanian Museum Library.
Books to Buy: Three books have been ordered for this course and are available at the Pennsylvania Book Center, 3726 Walnut Street:
John Boardman, Athenian Black Figure Vases
John Boardman, Athenian Red Figure Vases: the Archaic Period
John Boardman, Early Greek Vase Painting
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2-4 pm, in my office, Room 350, Mediterranean Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum. Make an appointment by telephoning (898-6556) or sending an e-mail (abrownle@sas.upenn.edu). ARTH 521 Fall 1998 Professor Ann Brownlee Greek Vase-Painting
Reserve Books
The following books are on reserve in the Fine Arts Library:
John Boardman, Athenian Black Figure Vases, London 1974 (NK 4648 B2 1974)
John Boardman, Athenian Red Figure Vases: the Archaic Period, London 1975 (NK 4649 B62) and New York 1979 (NK 4649 B62 1979)
John Boardman, Athenian Red Figure Vases: the Classical Period, London 1989 (NK 4649 B63 1989)
Dietrich von Bothmer, The Amasis Painter and his World, Malibu 1985 (ND 115 A55 A4 1985)
J. N. Coldstream, Geometric Greece, New York 1977 (DF 220 C58 1977)
Joseph V. Noble, The Techniques of Painted Attic Pottery, rev. ed., London 1988 (NK 4645 N6 1988)
Brian A. Sparkes, The Red and the Black: Studies in Greek Pottery, London 1996 (NK 4649 S68 1996)
Fine Arts Library non-circulating:
J. D. Beazley, Attic Black-figure Vase-painters, Oxford 1956 [New York 1978 reprint] (NK 4648 B415 1978)
J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 2nd ed., 3 vols. Oxford 1963 (NK 4649 B44 1963) The following books are on reserve in the Museum Library:
D. A. Amyx, Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period, 3 vols., Berkeley 1988 (NK 4645 A418 1988)
J. D. Beazley, The Development of Attic Black-figure, rev. ed., Berkeley 1986 (NK 4648 B42 1986)
John Boardman, Early Greek Vase Painting, London 1998
J. N. Coldstream, Greek Geometric Pottery, London 1968 (NK 4645 C64)
Looking at Greek Vases, ed. T. Rasmussen and N. Spivey, Cambridge and New York 1991 (NK 4645 L66 1991)
M. B. Moore and M. Z. P. Philippides, The Athenian Agora, v. 23, Attic Black-figured Pottery, Princeton 1986 (DF 287 A23 A5 v. 23)
C. W. Neeft, Addenda et Corrigenda to D. A. Amyx, Corinthian Vase-Painting in the Archaic Period, Amsterdam 1991 (NK 4645 A41822 1991)
Martin Robertson, The Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens, Cambridge and New York 1992 (NK 4645 R7 1992)
In the Museum Library Reference Collection:
J. D. Beazley, Attic Black-figure Vase-painters, Oxford 1956 (738.38 B389.3)
J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 2nd ed. , 3 vols., Oxford 1963 (739 B389 1963)
J. D. Beazley, Paralipomena. Additions to Attic Black-figure Vase-painters and Attic Red-figure Painters (second edition), Oxford 1971 (NK 4648 B43)
Beazley Addenda. Additional References to ABV, ARV2, & Paralipomena, 2nd ed., Oxford 1989 (NK 4648 C26 1989)
Other Reference Works
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum series. In the Museum Library; all the volumes are shelved together on the first floor. Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. In Fine Arts Library Reference. ARTH 521 Fall 1998 Professor Ann Brownlee Greek Vase-Painting
Class Schedule
11 September Introduction
18 September Geometric
25 September Protocorinthian and Corinthian
2 October Corinthian
9 October Attic Black-Figure
16 October Attic Black-Figure 23 October Attic Black-Figure
30 October Attic Red-Figure
6 November Attic Red-Figure
13 November Conservation
20 November Display
27 November Thanksgiving Break
4 December Reports
11 December Reports