The Art Of Vase Painting In Classical Athens

Author : Martin Robertson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521338816

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The Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens by Martin Robertson Pdf

In his new book, Professor Martin Robertson - author of A History of Greek Art (CUP 1975) and A Shorter History of Greek Art (CUP 1981) - draws together the results of a lifetime's study of Greek vase-painting, tracing the history of figure-drawing on Athenian pottery from the invention of the 'red-figure' technique in the later archaic period to the abandonment of figured vase-decoration two hundred years later. The book covers red-figure and also work produced over the same period in the same workshops in black-figure and other techniques, especially that of drawing in outline on a white ground. The book is intended as a companion volume to Sir John Beazley's The Development of Attic Black-figure (originally published in 1951 by California University Press), and as an examination and defence of Beazley's methods and achievements. This book is a major contribution to the history of Greek vase-painting and anyone seriously interested in the subject - whether scholar, student, curator, collector or amateur - will find it essential reading.

Author : Susan B. Matheson
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 0299138704

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Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens by Susan B. Matheson Pdf

Matheson provides the first comprehensive chronology for Polygnotos's own works, and then analyzes the distinctive, evolving Polygnotan style first isolated by Sir John Beazley, comparing this style to that of contemporary Athenian workshops and demonstrating its seminal influence on the later vase painting of southern Italy.

Author : John H. Oakley,John Oakley
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780299327248

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A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases by John H. Oakley,John Oakley Pdf

Painted vases are the richest and most complex images that remain from ancient Greece. Over the past decades, a great deal has been written on ancient art that portrays myths and rituals. Less has been written on scenes of daily life, and what has been written has been tucked away in hard-to-find books and journals. A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases synthesizes this material and expands it: it is the first comprehensive volume to present visual representations of everything from pets and children's games to drunken revelry and funerary rituals. John H. Oakley's clear, accessible writing provides sound information with just the right amount of detail. Specialists of Greek art will welcome this book for its text and illustrations. This guide is an essential and much-needed reference for scholars and an ideal sourcebook for classics and art history.

Author : Mark Stansbury-O'Donnell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107662803

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Vase Painting, Gender, and Social Identity in Archaic Athens by Mark Stansbury-O'Donnell Pdf

This study explores the phenomenon of 'spectators' at the sides of Athenian narrative vase paintings.

Author : Robin Osborne
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691177670

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The Transformation of Athens by Robin Osborne Pdf

How remarkable changes in ancient Greek pottery reveal the transformation of classical Greek culture Why did soldiers stop fighting, athletes stop competing, and lovers stop having graphic sex in classical Greek art? The scenes depicted on Athenian pottery of the mid-fifth century BC are very different from those of the late sixth century. Did Greek potters have a different world to see—or did they come to see the world differently? In this lavishly illustrated and engagingly written book, Robin Osborne argues that these remarkable changes are the best evidence for the shifting nature of classical Greek culture. Osborne examines the thousands of surviving Athenian red-figure pots painted between 520 and 440 BC and describes the changing depictions of soldiers and athletes, drinking parties and religious occasions, sexual relations, and scenes of daily life. He shows that it was not changes in each activity that determined how the world was shown, but changes in values and aesthetics. By demonstrating that changes in artistic style involve choices about what aspects of the world we decide to represent as well as how to represent them, this book rewrites the history of Greek art. By showing that Greeks came to see the world differently over the span of less than a century, it reassesses the history of classical Greece and of Athenian democracy. And by questioning whether art reflects or produces social and political change, it provokes a fresh examination of the role of images in an ever-evolving world.

Author : Dietrich Von Bothmer
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Vase-painting, Greek
ISBN : 9780870994883

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Greek Vase Painting by Dietrich Von Bothmer Pdf

Author : Susan Woodford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472526397

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An Introduction to Greek Art by Susan Woodford Pdf

The four centuries between the composition of the Homeric epics and the conquests of Alexander the Great witnessed an immensely creative period in Greek art, one full of experimentation and innovation. But time has taken its toll; damaged statues have lost their colour and wall paintings have been totally destroyed. And yet sympathetic study of surviving sculpture and of drawing on vases can give extraordinary insight into and appreciation of these once brilliant works This book, designed originally for students, introduces the reader to Greek sculpture and vase painting in the critical period from the eighth to the fourth centuries BC. The works discussed are generously illustrated and lucidly analysed to give a vivid picture of the splendor of Greek art. The up-dated second edition includes a new chapter examining art in Greek society, a timeline to help relate artistic development to historical events, an explanation of how dates BC are arrived at, a brief overview of Greek temple plans and a further reading list of recent books. This clear, approachable and rigorous introduction makes the beauty of Greek art more readily accessible and comprehensible, balancing description with interpretation and illustration, and is an invaluable tool to help develop insight, appreciation and comprehension.

Author : Alexandre G. Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521513708

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Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour by Alexandre G. Mitchell Pdf

This richly illustrated book is a comprehensive study of visual humour in ancient Greece, emphasising works created in Athens and Boeotia.

Author : Beth Cohen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004493742

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Not the Classical Ideal by Beth Cohen Pdf

A vision of reality in which a pre-eminent human type was defined in opposition to non-ideal 'Others' characterized ancient Greece. In democratic Athens the social structure privileged male citizens, and women, resident aliens, and slaves were marginalized. The Persian Wars polarized the opposition of Greeks and Barbarians. This anthology provides the first investigation of the delineation of otherness across a broad spectrum of the imagery of Greek art. An international cast of authors, with methodologies ranging from traditional to avant-garde, examines manifestations of the Other in Late Archaic and Classical Greek representations that particularly interest them. The 17 chapters develop a nuanced picture of the visual criteria that denoted otherness in regard to gender, class, and ethnicity and also reveal the social and political functions of this remarkable Greek imagery. Also available in paperback (ISBN 9789004117129)

Author : Cornelia Isler-Kerényi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004270121

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Dionysos in Classical Athens by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi Pdf

Dionysos, with his following of satyrs and women, was a major theme in a big part of the figure painted pottery in 500-300 B.C. Athens. As an original testimonial of their time, the imagery on these vases convey what this god meant to his worshippers. It becomes clear that he was not only appropriate for wine, wine indulgence, ecstasy and theatre. Rather, he was presenton many, both happy and sad, occasions. The vase painters have emphasized different aspects of Dionysos for their customers inside and outside of Athens, depending on the political and cultural situation.

Author : Richard T. Neer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521791111

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Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-painting by Richard T. Neer Pdf

In this study of Athenian vases of the late Archaic period, Neer tracks the design and imagery of the symposium, with its elaborate riddles and poems and the development of "naturalistic" techniques, such as foreshortening and shading. He also traces the birth of self-portraiture at the end of the sixth century and the treatment of overtly political subject-matter in the early democracy. The author thus reexamines basic ideas about Greek art and history, with particular regard to naturalism, realism, allegory, and the relation of ceramics to social life. Neer further demonstrates how formal ambiguity provided vase painters and their audiences with a means of creating new conceptions of civic identity.

Author : Dimitrios Yatromanolakis
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784914875

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Epigraphy of Art by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis Pdf

Ancient Greek vase-paintings offer broad-ranging and unprecedented early perspectives on the often intricate interplay of images and texts. This book investigates both epigraphic technicalities of Attic and non-Attic inscriptions, and their broader, iconographic and sociocultural, significance.

Author : Beth Cohen
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Pottery
ISBN : 9780892369423

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The Colors of Clay by Beth Cohen Pdf

"The catalogue ... is truly excellent and makes an important contribution to the study of Greek Art." --Bryn Mawr Classical Review "An overwhelming volume. The subject matter ... is described in great detail in nine chapters. Essential." --Choice This catalogue documents a major exhibition at the Getty Villa that was the first ever to focus on ancient Athenian terracotta vases made by techniques other than the well-known black- and red-figure styles. The exhibition comprised vases executed in bilingual, coral-red gloss, outline, Kerch-style, white ground, and Six's technique, as well as examples with added clay and gilding, and plastic vases and additions. The Colors of Clay opens with an introductory essay that integrates the diverse themes of the exhibition and sets them within the context of vase making in general; a second essay discusses conservation issues related to several of the techniques. A detailed discussion of the techniques featured in the exhibition precedes each section of the catalogue. More than a hundred vases from museums in the United States and Europe are described in depth.

Author : Brian A. Sparkes
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Pottery, Greek
ISBN : 0719029368

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Greek Pottery by Brian A. Sparkes Pdf

This work deals with classical Greek pottery from a number of points of view - technique, period, place of production, function, shape, decoration and distribution. The book places an emphasis on the every-day uses of Greek pottery - as containers for water, wine, fish, honey and olives, for example - and does not treat it as art. The author explains the importance of clay as a fundamental natural resource in the lives of the ancient Greeks, stressing its versatility as a container in varying conditions of heat and cold. The book aims to offer a broad picture of Greek pottery that gives an idea of its variety and importance without dwelling too heavily upon the high-quality figured vases.

Author : John Howard Oakley
Publisher : J Paul Getty Museum Publications
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 160606147X

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The Greek Vase by John Howard Oakley Pdf

This richly illustrated volume offers a fascinating introduction to ancient Greek vases for the general reader. It presents vases not merely as beautiful vessels to hold water and wine, but also as instruments of storytelling and bearers of meaning. The first two chapters analyze the development of different shapes of pottery and relate those shapes to function, the evolution in vase production techniques and decoration, and the roles of potters, painters, and their workshops. Subsequent chapters focus on vases as the primary source of imagery from ancient Greece, offering unique information about mythology, religion, theater, and daily life. The author discusses how to identify the figures and scenes depicted in vase paintings, what these narratives would have meant to the people who lived with them and used them, and how they therefore reflect the cultural values of their time. Also examined is the impact Greek vases had on the art, architecture, and literature of subsequent generations. Based on the rich collections of the British Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum, the exquisite details of the works offer the reader the opportunity for an intimate interaction with the graphic beauty and narrative power of ancient vases often not available in a gallery setting.