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Jacques Carrey (12 January 1649 – 18 February 1726) was a French painter and draughtsman, now remembered almost exclusively for the series of drawings he made of the Parthenon, Athens, in 1674. [1] Born in Troyes, Carrey was a pupil in the atelier of Charles Le Brun.
References [ edit ] ^ The Getty Museum – Biography of the Antimenes Painter The Antimenes Painter decorated vases in the black-figure technique in Athens from about 530 to 510 B.C. Working in a period when many artists were switching to the new red-figure technique, the Antimenes Painter was one of the most prolific black-figure artists of ...
Chibi, also known as super deformation (SD), is a style of caricature originating in Japan, and common in anime and manga where characters are drawn in an exaggerated way, typically small and chubby with stubby limbs, oversized heads, and minimal detail.
The amphora was made by the Euphiletos Painter in 530 BC near the end of the Archaic Period of Greece.It was discovered in Attica.Made out of terracotta, the amphora has a height of 24.5 inches (62.2 cm).
The Pioneer Group is a term used by scholars for a number of vase painters working in the potters' quarter of Kerameikos in ancient Athens around the beginning of the 5th century BC, around the time of the emergence of red-figure vase painting, which soon displaced the previously dominant black-figure style.
National Art Gallery, Athens: Portrait of Giulio Clovio: c. 1571 oil on wood 58 × 86 Capodimonte Museum, Naples Boy Blowing on an Ember to Light a Candle: 1571–1572 oil on canvas 60.5 × 50.5 Capodimonte Museum, Naples Portrait of Vincenzo Anastagi: 1571–1576 oil on canvas 188 × 126.7 Frick Collection, New York Pieta: 1571–1576 Tempera ...
The Scythian archers were a hypothesized police force of 5th- and early 4th-century BC Athens that is recorded in some Greek artworks and literature. The force is said to have consisted of 300 armed Scythians (a nomadic Iranic people living in the Eurasian Steppe) who were public slaves in Athens.
The Erechtheion [2] (/ ɪ ˈ r ɛ k θ i ə n /, latinized as Erechtheum / ɪ ˈ r ɛ k θ i ə m, ˌ ɛ r ɪ k ˈ θ iː ə m /; Ancient Greek: Ἐρέχθειον, Greek: Ερέχθειο) or Temple of Athena Polias [3] is an ancient Greek Ionic temple on the north side of the Acropolis, Athens, which was primarily dedicated to the goddess Athena.