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Most Greek vases were wheel-made, though as with the Rhyton mould-made pieces (so-called "plastic" pieces) are also found and decorative elements either hand-formed or by mould were added to thrown pots. More complex pieces were made in parts then assembled when it was leather hard by means of joining with a slip, where the potter returned to ...
In Greek mythology, Chalcis or Khalkis (/ ˈ k æ l s ɪ s / KAL-siss; [1] Ancient Greek: Χαλκίς) was a naiad as one of the daughters of the river-god Asopus and Metope, the river-nymph daughter of the river Ladon. [2] Her name means "a brazen pot" from χαλκόν chalcon "bronze".
P. Pallas and Arachne; Pallas and the Centaur; Pandora (painting) The Parisian Sphinx; The Parnassus; Persephone (painting) Polyphemus (Sebastiano del Piombo)
Seated woman of Çatalhöyük flanked by two lionesses. The Potnia Theron (Ancient Greek: Ἡ Πότνια Θηρῶν, romanized: Hē Pótnia Therón, lit. 'The Lady of Animals', [1] [hɛː pót.ni.a tʰɛː.rɔ̂ːn]) or Mistress of Animals is a widespread [not verified in body] motif in ancient art from the Mediterranean world and the ancient Near East, showing a central human, or human ...
Heracles and Geryon on an Attic black-figured amphora with a thick layer of transparent gloss, c. 540 BC, now in the Munich State Collection of Antiquities.. Black-figure pottery painting (also known as black-figure style or black-figure ceramic; Ancient Greek: μελανόμορφα, romanized: melanómorpha) is one of the styles of painting on antique Greek vases.
In Greek mythology, Thyestes (pronounced / θ aɪ ˈ ɛ s t iː z /, Greek: Θυέστης, [tʰyéstɛːs]) was a king of Olympia. Thyestes and his brother, Atreus, were exiled by their father for having murdered their half-brother, Chrysippus, in their desire for the throne of Olympia.
The Dinos of the Gorgon Painter (French: Dinos du Peintre de la Gorgone) is an important example of ancient Greek pottery, produced at Athens around 580 BC. It entered the Louvre's collection in 1861, with the purchase of Giampietro Campana's collection (Inv. E 874).
The somewhat older Sokra Group had a preference for cups with interior images from Greek mythology, sometimes also with Etruscan motifs. The Phantom Group mostly painted cloaked figures in combination with compositions of plant or palmette patterns. The workshops of both groups are supposed to have been located in Caere, Falerii and Tarquinia ...