Caeretan hydria
As Caeretaner hydriai refers to a particular style of Greek vase painting, which is attributed to the black-figured style.
The Caeretaner hydriai is a particularly colorful genus of Greek vase painting. About the origin of the vessels will be argued in the research, in recent years, enforces the view that there are two immigrants from the eastern Greek space by Caere in Etruria pottery painters from the producers of the vases. Because of their painting the vases has long been regarded as Etruscan or Corinthian. But inscriptions in Ionic Greek supported the theory of immigration. Your workshop had only one generation portfolio. Today about 40 vases of the style are known to have produced the two masters and their assistants. None of them was found outside of Etruria. The majority was found in Caere, according to the site, they also have their name, which was created by Carl Humann and Otto Puchstein. The vases are dated about the time 530-510 / 500 BC.
The hydriai have a height of 40 to 45 centimeters. The vases body have remote, high and wide sweeping necks, broad shoulders and low ring feet in the form of an inverted chalices. The technical quality of the vase is more regarded as low. Quite a few of hydriai are deformed or have mis fires. Also to be found at many copies dents of shocks that caused slight deformation before the fire. The painting of the body was divided into four zones: shoulder, a figurative and ornamental abdominal zone and a lower end. Apart from the figurative belly zone, all zones were ornamental decorations. Only once it is known that two figurative belly friezes were applied.
Your appeal practice the vases made primarily because of its colorful paint. In its variegation, this genus differs from all other black-figure styles. The style is reminiscent of the Ionian vase painting and found in Egypt, multicolored painted wooden panels. The figure decoration was made on the abdomen. Men can be shown with red, black or white skin, women have almost always white. The contours as well as the details are as common in the black-figure style carved. Surfaces made of black glossy slip were frequently with another colored layer coated glossy slip, so that was at scorings of black glossy slip to single drawing. On the front of the representations are always moving, often created heraldic on the back.
The ornaments are an important part of the hydria, they did not retreat behind the other motives. For the ornaments stencils were used. You are not scratched. The foot, the handle approaches and finish interior side are decorated with alternating red and black tongue patterns. Because the painters put the top coat on black glossy slip, tongue leaves have black borders. The necks were decorated with meandering spiral crosses and polychrome buds tendrils, the singular Fund of the ornament is by a Bukranion. The shoulder was either also painted with tongue pattern or with black ivy and berries. About the feet of black, white and red rays are applied. Under the handles, there are single palmettes.
Outstanding services to the exploration of Caeretaner hydriai Jaap M. Hemelrijk made . He also distinguished the two masters, which are assigned to the individual vases. Hemelrijks pottery and ornament painting divisions, however, have not been successful. He called the painter Busiris Painter and Eagle painter. The latter is considered as the leading representative of the style. They had a special interest in mythological materials, which usually also show an eastern influence. On the Namenvase the Busiris painter, Heracles trample the mythical Egyptian pharaoh Busiris. Even otherwise, Hercules is often represented, as with Nessus, Achelous, the lion, or Alkyoneus Pholos. Hermes is shown in the Cattle Raid, Odysseus and Polyphemus, Europe, Dionysus or the return of Hephaestus to Olympus. There are also images of daily life, such as scenes from the palaestra, hunting scenes, scenes of sacrifice or warrior. Also shown are rare pictures, so Keto, which is accompanied by a white seal. Once both painters have been working on a vase.
Besides hydriai a Alabastron of Eagle painter is known. At the Caeretaner hydriai close stylistically with stripes painted on neck amphorae.