Argive vase painting
Argive vase painting was a regional style of Greek
Geometric vase painting from the city of Argos
.
Besides
Attic vase painting, until the final phase of the style (750/690 BC). Typical of the Argive Geometric vases are large pictorial panels, containing either horses or men and horses. Waterfowl and fish were often depicted in the background. Ornamentation is dominated by stepped meanders
and orientalising motifs.
Bibliography
- ISBN 3-8062-1743-2.
- Gerald P. Schaus: Geometrische Vasenmalerei, In: Der Neue Pauly, vol. 4, cols. 935–938