antly perhaps, an important technological step forward. Red figures set against a black ground gave the artist an opportunity to paint the faces, bodies, and draperies of figures with a brush rather than incising them. What results, according to Wood, et al (1989), is a slightly less decorative but much more complex set of images. In this particular piece, the central panel is, of course, the most significant and the most complex. It is balanced by a single row of geometric decorative elements at the lip of the vessel and a pair of rows of such elements at the stem of the vessel. Each of the figures are elaborately detailed with full attention to musculature as well as drapery and other accessories. Both a string verti
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