Rhodian vase painting was a regional style of
East Greek vase painting
East Greek vase painting was a regional style of ancient Greek vase painting, produced by the eastern Greeks (Ionia and the islands of the eastern Aegean Sea). In spite of the region's wealth, the pottery was rather unremarkable in comparison to o ...
, based on the island of
Rhodes.
Especially well known are the
Rhodian plate
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s. These were painted in a polychrome (multi-coloured) technique, with some detail incised, as in
black-figure vase painting. Between 560 and 530 BC,
situlae
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based on Egyptian models prevailed. They depicted both Greek themes such as
Typhoeus
Typhon (; grc, Τυφῶν, Typhôn, ), also Typhoeus (; grc, Τυφωεύς, Typhōeús, label=none), Typhaon ( grc, Τυφάων, Typháōn, label=none) or Typhos ( grc, Τυφώς, Typhṓs, label=none), was a monstrous serpentine giant an ...
, and others inspired by
ancient Egyptian tradition, such as
Egyptian hieroglyphs and Egyptian athletics.
Bibliography
*
Thomas Mannack: ''Griechische Vasenmalerei. Eine Einführung''. Thesis, Stuttgart 2002, p. 81f., 90-94, 134f.. .
* Matthias Steinhart: ''Schwarzfigurige Vasenmalerei II. Ausserattisch''. In ''
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'', vol. 11, col. 276-281.
{{Commonscat, Rhodian pottery
Ancient Greek vase-painting styles