Rhodian vase painting was a regional style of
East Greek vase painting, based on the island of
Rhodes
Rhodes (; el, Ρόδος , translit=Ródos ) is the largest and the historical capital of the Dodecanese islands of Greece. Administratively, the island forms a separate municipality within the Rhodes regional unit, which is part of the S ...
.
Especially well known are the
Rhodian plates. These were painted in a polychrome (multi-coloured) technique, with some detail incised, as in
black-figure vase painting
Black-figure pottery painting, also known as the black-figure style or black-figure ceramic ( grc, , }), is one of the styles of painting on antique Greek vases. It was especially common between the 7th and 5th centuries BCE, although there are ...
. Between 560 and 530 BC,
situlae based on Egyptian models prevailed. They depicted both Greek themes such as
Typhoeus, and others inspired by
ancient Egyptian tradition, such as
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs (, ) were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt, used for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with some 1,000 distinct characters.There were about 1, ...
and Egyptian athletics.
Bibliography
*
Thomas Mannack
Thomas Mannack (born in 1958) is a German classical archaeologist.
Mannack obtained his Doctorate in 1992 with at the University of Kiel. The thema of his dissertation was ''Beazleys spätere und späteste Manieristen''. He is a specialist in ...
: ''Griechische Vasenmalerei. Eine Einführung''. Thesis, Stuttgart 2002, p. 81f., 90-94, 134f.. .
* Matthias Steinhart: ''Schwarzfigurige Vasenmalerei II. Ausserattisch''. In ''
Der Neue Pauly'', vol. 11, col. 276-281.
{{Commonscat, Rhodian pottery
Ancient Greek vase-painting styles