White Ground Technique
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The White Ground Technique of vase painting was developed in the late 6th century BCE in Athens, Greece by the Achilles Painter. It consists of a white slip of the local calcareous clay applied to a terracota vase and then painted, in the later development of the technique a coloured wash was often applied to the clothing or flesh of the figures depicted. Psiax painted the first known white ground lekythos around 510 BCE.
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- E. Pottier Étude sur les lécythes blancs antiques 1883
- J.H. Oakley, Picturing Death in Classical Athens: The Evidence of the White Lekythoi, CUP.
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