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IV. Connoisseurship

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In the summer of 1985 the centenary of the birth of Sir John Beazley was celebrated in London and Oxford. His influence on the study of Greek painted pottery, particularly Attic (Colour Plate 4A, etc.), has been second to none this century, and his death in 1970 left a gap that has been impossible to fill. Since his death, titles of lectures and conferences such as ‘Beazley and After’, ‘Vasenforschung nach Beazley’ and ‘In the Wake of Beazley’ show what a pivotal figure he was, and the 70s and 80s have proved interesting times for re-adjusting sights. As Martin Robertson remarked, we are living in ‘an age of uncertainty.

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1. The Oxford meeting led to the publication of a small volume, Beazley and Oxford, in which, amongst some nostalgic pieces, Martin Robertson in ‘Beazley and Attic Vase Painting’ (pp. 19-30) turned his attention to present problems. The Brygos Tomb vases (Colour Plate 4A) were reassembled in the British Museum in time for the London meeting, thanks to the cooperation of Dr D. von Bothmer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Dr M. Maass of the Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe.

2. Robertson, M., ‘Beazley and After’, MJbK 3rd Series 27 (1976), 2946 Google Scholar (quotation from 29); Vasenforschungen nach Beazley, Tübingen 24-25.11.1978, Schriften des deutschen Archäologen-Verbandes 4 (Mainz, 1978)Google Scholar; Hoffmann, H., ‘In the Wake of Beazley’, Hephaistos 1 (1979), 6170 Google Scholar.

3. The Beazley Archive houses thousands of photographs which are constantly being added to, and 2000 drawings executed by Beazley himself. For information, see Vasenforschung (n. 2, above), 24-27 (D. C. Kurtz); AK 19 (1976), 120 and JHS 97 (1977), v. In The Berlin Painter (see n. 5, below), Kurtz publishes Beazley’s drawings of the painter’s work.

4. Computerized references, see AK 26 (1983), 106 and JHS 103 (1983), 160; and R. Glynn, ‘The Beazley Archive computer project’, Rouen Colloque, pp. 67-79. Beazley Addenda contains additions to Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956)Google Scholar, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963) and Paralipomena , ed. Robertson, M. (Oxford, 1971)Google Scholar.

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8. Quotations from Beazley and Oxford, p. 27, and MJbK 3rd series 27 (1976), 36.

9. See M. Robertson, ‘The State of Attic Vase-Painting in the Mid Sixth Century’, Amasis Painter, Papers, pp. 13-28.

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20. Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, the Classical Period, a handbook (London, 1989)Google Scholar. Folsom’s, R. two volumes, Attic black-figured pottery (Park Ridge, 1975)Google Scholar and Attic red-figured pottery (Park Ridge, 1976) are much less helpful and accurate than Boardman’s.

21. The Development of Attic Black-figure, 2nd ed., revised and edited by Bothmer, D. von and Moore, M. B. (Berkeley, 1986)Google Scholar.

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23. Beazley Addenda, 2nd ed., pp. 1-148. Moore, M. B. and Philippides, M. Z. P., Attic Black-Figured Pottery (The Athenian Agora, vol. 23, Princeton, 1986)Google Scholar looks at shapes and painters. J. R. Mertens, ‘Some thoughts on Attic vase-painting of the 6th cent, B.C.’, Copenhagen Symposium, pp. 414-34, has a close look at sixth century Attic vase-painting.

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26. A. F. Stewart, ‘Stesichoros and the François Vase’, Moon AGAI, pp. 53-74. Against the connection with Stesichoros, see March, J. R., The Creative Poet (BICS Supplementary Volume 49, 1987), 4, n. 12 Google Scholar.

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29. On the dating and provenance of Tyrrhenian amphorae, see Carpenter, T. H., ‘On the dating of the Tyrrhenian Group’, OJA 2 (1983), 279293 Google Scholar, and ‘The Tyrrhenian Group: problems of provenance’, 3 (1984), 45-56. For a detailed investigation of the relation between Lydos and the painters of Tyrrhenian amphorae, see Shapiro, H. A., ‘Two black-figure neck-amphorae in the J. Paul Getty Museum: problems of workshop and iconography’, Greek Vases IV (1989), 1132 Google Scholar.

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33. Böhr, E., Der Schaukelmaler (Kerameus 4, Mainz, 1982)Google Scholar. See now E. Bohr ‘Weitere Werke des Schaukelmalers’, Praestant Interna, 213-20, pls. 44-6 and Bothmer’s, D. von review, AJA 89 (1985), 362 Google Scholar.

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35. Bothmer, D. von, ‘Ἄμα σις, Ἀμάσιδος’, GettyMJ 9 (1981), 14 Google Scholar.

36. Amasis Painter, Papers.

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41. Ohly-Dumm, M., ‘Medeas Widderzauber auf einer Schale aus der Werkstatt des Euphronios’, GettyMJ 9 (1981), 521 Google Scholar; Sparkes, B. A., ‘Aspects of Onesimos’, Greek Art: Archaic into Classical, a symposium held at the University of Cincinnati April 2-3, 1982, ed. Boulter, C. G. (Leiden, 1985), pp. 1839 Google Scholar, pls. 19-36. See now L’arte di Eufronio (Florence, 1990)

42. M. Ohly-Dumm, ‘Sosias und Euthymides’, Amsterdam Symposium, 165-72; Pinney, G. F., ‘The nonage of the Berlin Painter, AJA 85 (1981), 145-58CrossRefGoogle Scholar, pls. 29-36; Weiss, C., ‘Phintias in Malibu und Karlsruhe’, Greek Vases IV (1989), 8394 Google Scholar.

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