Amphora Narratives

Eleni Stavros · 2022

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

90 × 130 cm

The black-figure technique of ancient Greek pottery — black slip on orange clay, narrative scenes cut in silhouette — here applied at painting scale to canvas. The myths depicted are not the famous ones: Stavros chose eight scenes that appear only once in the surviving corpus, stories told on one surviving pot and never repeated.