Talk by Bernard Ashmole Keeper of Greek and Roman
Antiquities at the British Museum
The study of Greek vases, the identification of the painters who decorated them, and the appreciation of their different artistic personalities represent a field within the compass of classical scholarship which has been virtually transformed through the contribution made over the last thirty years by one man, Sir John Beazley. This talk on the importance for Greek studies of Athenian vases and on the different artistic techniques employed in their decoration is occasioned by the recent publication of Sir John Beazley's Attic Black-figure Vase-painters.