Talk:Red-figure pottery

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A fact from Red-figure pottery appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 December 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Euphronios (work pictured), Hermonax and the Providence Painter were Greek vase painters of the early 5th century BC specialised in Red-figure pottery and that the Belly Amphora by the Andokides Painter‎ is one of the earliest works in that style?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/December.

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How are the techniques done for red and black figure painting

Consider adding schools or groups.

Technical problems

There seem to be some problems with this article. I don't know enough to correct it, but I do know that the substance applied to the vases is terra sigillata, not "paint", and it is not "burned" in the firing. The article on black-figure pottery looks like a much better technical description of a similar subject. —Michael Z. 2007-07-31 14:56 Z

Extension

I have extended this article, mostly by translating the counterpart from German wikipedia. The previous commentator is rigght as regards "burned". "Fired" is the word normally used. His or her reference to terra sigillata is not correct. That term described a type of Roman mould-made pottery and is entirely unconnected to Greek red-figure vase painting.

There are currently a lot of redlinks in the article. I will try and start articles for as many of them as I can in the near future.

It would be useful if someone could replace the references from Boardman, here gicing page numbers in the German translation, with those from the original English. The DNP references should stay as they are, as that source, albeit in German, is one of the main key reference works internationally.

athinaios (talk) 02:57, 25 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]