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TRENDALL, A.D., Red-Figured Vases of Paestum, British School at Rome, 1987
The world has just recently lost Dr. A.D. Trendall, the leading scholar on South Italian pottery who lived and worked in Australia. One of his last efforts was on the painted vases of Paestum. Most of his previous works sell for multiples of their issue price. Harlan J, Berk, Ltd., goes the opposite direction, and offers this out of print volume, normally $50.00, now just $35.00. The contents in this book contain information on: The Sicilian Forerunners - The Transition From Sicilian to Paestan - Early Vases - Vases Signed by Asteas - Other Vases Attributed to Asteas or closely related to his work - Python - Other Painters in the Asteas-Python Workshop - Minor Vases from the Asteas-Python Workshop - Two later artists in the Asteas-Python Workshop - The Painter of Naples 1778 and vases associated with him - The Painter of Naples 2585 and his circle - and The Apulianising Group.
A general introductory chapter outlines the history of Paestum and one of the excavations there, and in the surrounding area; a glance at the Bibliography will indicate the enormous amount of work that has been published during the past forty years in this field. There follows a brief survey of the chief distinguishing characteristics of Paestum red-figure, and then a study of those vases, probably of Sicilian origin, which seem to be the immediate forerunners of both Paestum and Campanian. Appendix I lists the more significant Paestum vases decorated in applied red, and Appendix II deals very briefly with some black-figured vases of the so-called Pagenstecher Class. Concordances have been provided to relate the vases listed in the present work to those in the earlier publications. Vases now identified as Campanian are excluded from the present work, and a few minor vases, which Trendall was unable to locate in Paestum, have also been omitted in view of doubts about their correct attribution. |
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