Author: John BoardmanPublisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500203095
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This volume completes a series of four titles which comprehensively cover the development of Greek vases.
Early Greek Vase Painting
Author: John BoardmanPublisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500203095
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This volume completes a series of four titles which comprehensively cover the development of Greek vases.
A Handbook of Greek Vase Painting
Author: Mary Antonie Beatrice HerfordPublisher: Manchester, Eng., U. P
ISBN:
Category : Vase-painting, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Greek Vase
Author: John Howard OakleyPublisher: J Paul Getty Museum Publications
ISBN: 9781606061473
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
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.
A Handbook of Greek Vase Painting
Author: Mary Antonie Beatrice HerfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vase-painting, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
A Handbook of Greek Vase Painting
Author: Mary A. B. HerfordPublisher:
ISBN: 9780936332406
Category : Vase-painting, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
A Handbook of Greek Art
Author: Gisela Marie Augusta RichterPublisher: Plume Books
ISBN:
Category : Art, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
How to Read Greek Vases
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394042
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This handsomely illustrated volume is aimed at giving a broad audience deeper insight into the extensive collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The museum is famed for its Greek vases, of which 35 notable examples are detailed in this book. They reveal the variety and vitality of the refined forms and masterfully rendered scenes that characterize these works. And they demonstrate the interrelation of function, shape, technique, and subject matter that is key to understanding the rich language of Greek vases. The introduction provides valuable background information, and the entries delve into the features of each vase, incorporating brilliant color illustrations and many arresting details. Greek vases served specific utilitarian functions, and they also afforded outstanding artists, some of whom signed their work, a medium for depicting both the details of daily existence and aspects of their gods, goddesses, and heroes. We see the garments, implements, athletic competitions, and marriages and funerary rituals of Greeks who lived from the seventh through the fourth century B.C.. We also see their mythological figures and stories. The exceptional group of works assembled in this volume conveys the extent to which the culture of ancient Greece is still apparent today. This book is sure to inspire closer scrutiny of these remarkable works of art, which have survived for over two millennia to offer viewers an enlightening look into the ancient heritage of the Western world. -- from inside Front Cover.
A Handbook of Greek Vase Painting
Author: Mary Antonie Beatrice HerfordPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230378169
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...band, Graef, Akr. Fr. No. 361); at the same time the storytelling Athenian vein, which we saw foreshadowed in the Dipylon style, began to have its way, and to tell in the prominence of what one may call the narrative picture. The influence of realistic painting on Attic vases was still less conspicuous than on proto-Corinthian; the experiment in monochrome contour-drawing of men and women was soon abandoned for a more decorative scheme, in which the incised silhouette, with conventional touches of red, was used for men as it had almost consistently been for the animal frieze, and the contour kept only for women. This was an approach, as we shall see, to an effect aimed at in the developed Black-figure style. The strongly ceramic quality which distinguished the Attic fabrics from the more metallic proto-Corinthian persisted throughout their development, even in the so-called Vourva ware, which was, like its rival the common Corinthian, an export ware. But here, as in Corinth, the finer tradition is represented by a few large vases of the bowl type--kraters and lebetes--which, though they borrow the animal frieze from Corinth and the many touches of white paint from Ionia, themselves make the most important contribution of all, the reserved field for the picture. It was with this Attic ware that the future of Greek vase-painting lay. But before following it up we will glance at the yield of the seventh century on the other side of the Aegean. (2) E. Ionic Apart from the so-called Melian ware (Fig. 6), whose unique ornamentation and vivacious Melian...., ....... pictorial quality have nghuy given it an importance out of proportion to the small number of specimens known, perhaps the most interesting as well as the most ., . numerous are..
Looking at Greek Vases
Author: Tom RasmussenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521376792
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
An ancient Greek vase is a difficult object for the non-expert to come to terms with. Faced with rows of apparently undifferentiated black, red and buff pots, he or she is at a loss as to where to begin. Greek vases are treated as objets d'art in the modern world, but how much were they worth in the ancient? They are often used to demonstrate 'the Greek genius' and aspects of ancient Greek society, but why do many of them carry Eastern motifs, and why do so many turn up in Italy? Why were the Greeks not content with simple patterns on their pottery? What did the pictures on the pots mean to them? Why should a vase depict a scene from a play? These are the sorts of questions that this book, first published in 1991, attempts to answer. As the title implies, it is a series of 'looks' at Greek vases, offering suggestions on how to read the often complex images they present.
Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour
Author: Alexandre G. MitchellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521513707
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
This richly illustrated book is a comprehensive study of visual humour in ancient Greece, emphasising works created in Athens and Boeotia.