bilingual (vase painting)
Hierarchy classification:
Related term/s
Anotations
Scope note:
Refers to ancient Greek vase painters who painted in both Red-figure and Black-figure techniques. The term also refers to vessels where the same vessel displays both Red-figure and Black-figure techniques. The bilingual style was seen during a brief time in the Late Archaic period, during the third to fourth decades of the sixth century BCE, when the Attic Red-figure style was new and was gradually largely replacing the Black-figure style. During this transition phase, vessels sometimes exhibited both techniques, each relegated to distinct areas of the vessel, such as Black-figure in the interior and Red-figure on the exterior of a cup, or the exterior design of an amphora having been divided in half, with one technique on the front and the other on the back. The two techniques are sometimes employed by the same vase painter, and sometimes different vase painters are responsible for each of the two techniques on the same vessel.