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Discussion This vase dates to the Late Geometric period (c. 700 B.C.E.) and is made of a coarse, reddish-yellow clay. The vessel seems to be typical in shape for its time: contemporary Geometric ...
Cornelius C. Vermeule, III, Greek Vases for Boston: Attic Geometric to Sicilian Hellenistic, The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 115, No. 839, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Ford Madox Brown, Dante Gabriel ...
Athenian Potters and Painters: Greek Vases from Virginia Collections opens at The College of William & Mary's Muscarelle Museum of Art on August 18, 2012. The exhibit features vases on loan from ...
To begin with the old. “We had a clear vision that we wanted to present our Greek vases as paintings and drawings, not as vessels,” Tyndall says. “They are the origins of drawing.” ...
The first part of the article describes the applicability of the five formal modes to vases and metopes of the Archaic and Classical periods. The second part applies the principles of closed and open ...
Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered a 1,500-year-old mosaic with a rare ancient Greek inscription and a Star of David-cross ...
An Athenian vase fragment on offer, from a later red-figure example of around 420BC, represents an armoured Amazon, one of the race of proud warrior women who were the scourge of ancient Greece ...