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The small painting depicts two Ancient Greek poets, Sappho (right, in a yellow robe) beside Erinna (left, in a pink robe). They are seated on a stone bench with a high curved back amid the foliage of a garden in Mytilene, on the island of Lesbos. Sappho leans in to embrace Erinna, their faces gently touching.
In the eighth century BC, the works of Homer contain a reference to gardens, the Neverland of Alcinous, in the purely mythic Phaeacia, which stood as much apart from the known world of Homer's hearers as it did from the heroic world of Achaeans he was recreating, with much poetic license: [3] "We live far off", said Nausicaa, "surrounded by the stormy sea, the outermost of men, and no other ...
Among his numerous publications the most important were a volume on the bronzes found at Olympia, vast works on ancient gems and Greek vases, and the invaluable Meisterwerke der griechischen Plastik (Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture) (1893 [9] and 1908; English translations by Eugenie Strong and Taylor, London, 1914).
The art of ancient Greece has exercised an enormous influence on the culture of many countries from ancient times until the present, particularly in the areas of sculpture and architecture. In the West, the art of the Roman Empire was largely derived from Greek models.
Greek painting may refer to: Greek art. Greek Bronze Age art; Greek Neolithic art; Ancient Greek art. Ancient Greek vase painting; East Greek vase painting ...
Therefore, it seems that the paintings of this time were executed on almost precisely the same plan as contemporary sculptural reliefs. Polygnotus employed only a few simple colours. [1] Technically his art was primitive. His excellence lay in the beauty of his drawing of individual figures, especially in the "ethical" and ideal character of ...
Agatharchus or Agatharch (Ancient Greek: Ἀγάθαρχος) was a self-taught painter from Samos, [1] who lived in the 5th century BC. [2] His father was named Eudemos (Εὔδημος). [3] He is said by Vitruvius to have invented scenic painting, and to have painted a scene (scenam fecit) for a tragedy which Aeschylus exhibited. [4]
Sacrifice of Iphigenia. Antique fresco from Pompeii. Timanthes of Cythnus (Greek: Τιμάνϑης) was an ancient Greek painter of the fourth century BC. The most celebrated of his works was a picture representing the sacrifice of Iphigenia, in which he finely depicted the emotions of those who took part in the sacrifice; however, despairing of rendering the grief of Agamemnon, he represented ...