The vase-painter is a mythologist too, and he takes a mythological story for his motive, but his art has other ends than that of the poet. He may have heard the story recited at a Panathenaic festival, just as he may have seen it painted on some Stoa or Lesche. But he does not illustrate it, does not translate from an alien art into his own. He takes the myth and lets his own art say what it and only it can say. He has seen in the human body the vision of a heavenly pattern; he gives us the grace of a bending body, the poise of a flying foot, the swiftness of straight lines, the majesty and poignancy of limbs stark in death. That is all, and, surely, enough.
JANE ELLEN HARRISON.
CONTENTS
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I. | HOW DESIGNS ON VASES REPRESENT THE HISTORY OF GREEK PAINTING | [1] |
| II. | THE SOCIAL CONDITION OF A VASE PAINTER AT ATHENS | [9] |
| III. | THE WORKSHOP AND TOOLS OF DOURIS | [23] |
| IV. | HOW DOURIS WORKED | [30] |
| V. | THE WORK OF DOURIS | [43] |
| CONCLUSION | [80] | |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | [87] | |
| INDEX | [89] | |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| Fig. | Page | |
| 1. | Kantharos and Kylix (drinking cups) by Douris. Brussels and Louvre Museums. Taken from Photographs | [Frontispiece] |
| 2. | Workshop of a Vase Painter (red figured hydria in Caputi Collection at Ruvo), from Blümner. Technologie und Terminolog. der Gewerbe und Künste, ii., p. 85, Fig. 15 | [4] |
| 3. | The painter Smikros and his companions (red figured krater in the Brussels Museum), from Monuments et Mémoires de la Fondation Piot (article by C. Gaspari, ix., 1902, Pl. 2) | [8] |
| 4. | A Potter’s Workshop; modelling and baking of vases (black-figured hydria, Munich Museum), from Birch, “History of Ancient Pottery,” 1858, p. 249 | [12] |
| 5. | A display of Vases and a purchaser (red figured kylix painted by Phintias, Baltimore Museum). Hartwig’s Meisterschalen, Pl. 17 | [16] |
| 6. | Youths exercising in the Palæstra (red figured kylix by Douris, Louvre Museum), from an original Photograph | [20] |
| 7. | Aphrodite upon her Swan (Polychrome on white background, British Museum), from A. Murray and A. Smith, “White Attic Vases,” Pl. 15 | [24] |
| 8. | Eos carrying Memnon, her dead son (red figured kylix by Douris, Louvre Museum), from an original Photograph | [28] |
| 9. | Contest of Menelaos and Paris (exterior of preceding one), from an original Photograph | [32] |
| 10. | Contest of Ajax and Hector (exterior of preceding one), from an original Photograph | [36] |
| 11. | The Adventures of Theseus (red figured kylix by Douris, British Museum), from E. d’Eichthal et Th. Reinach Poèmes choisis de Bacchylide, p. 48 | [40] |
| 12. | Theseus and Kerkyon; Theseus and the Marathonian bull (reverse of red figured cup by the potter Euphronios, in the Louvre Museum) taken from Furtwängler & Reichhold Griechische Vasenmalerei, Pl. 5 | [44] |
| 13. | Nereids appealing to Nereus and Doris (red figured cup by Douris, Louvre Museum), taken from Wiener Vorlegeblätten, vii., Pl. 2 | [48] |
| 14. | Sileni playing and dancing (red figured vase by Douris, British Museum) Furtwängler & Reichhold Griechische Vasenmalerei, Pl. 48 | [52] |
| 15. | Hera and Iris attacked by Sileni (red figured cup by Brygos, British Museum), Furtwängler & Reichhold Griechische Vasenmalerei, Pl. 17 | [54] |
| 16. | Contest of Ajax and Ulysses; the voting of the Greek Chiefs (red figured cup by Douris, Vienna Museum), Furtwängler & Reichhold Griechische Vasenmalerei, Pl. 54 | [56] |
| 17. | Ulysses restoring the Arms of Achilles to Neoptolemos (interior of preceding one), Furtwängler & Reichhold Griechische Vasenmalerei, Pl. 54 | [60] |
| 18. | Achilles killing Troïlos (red figured cup by Euphronios, Perugia Museum) taken from Rayet et Collignon, Céramique Grecque, Fig. 70 | [64] |
| 19. | Soldiers arming (red figured cup by Douris, Vienna Museum), Furtwängler & Reichhold, Pl. 53 | [68] |
| 20. | Greek Hoplite and Persian Standard-bearer (red figured cup by Douris, Louvre Museum), Wiener Vorlegeblätten, vii., Pl. 3. Great surface indicates restoration | [70] |
| 21. | Seated Youth holding a Hare (red figured kylix by Douris, Louvre Museum), from an original Photograph | [72] |
| 22. | Interior of a School (red figured kylix by Douris, Berlin Museum), from Monumenti dell’ Inst. Arch., ix., Pl. 54 | [76] |
| 23. | A Schoolmaster. Berlin Museum, from Hartwig, Meisterschalen, Pl. 46 | [80] |
| 24. | Zeus carrying off a Woman (attributed to Douris, Louvre Museum), from an original Photograph | [84] |
| 25. | A Painter at Work (fragment, Boston Museum), Jahrbuch des Arch. Instituts, xiv., 1899, Pl. 4, Hartwig | [86] |