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The Arkesilas Painter primarily painted cups. He mainly painted symposion scenes and images from Greek mythology. The latter are dominated by depictions of Herakles, the amazons, Atlas and Prometheus. The latter two figures occur together on a single vase. [1] Apart from figural painting, he also ascribed vases bearing merely ornamental decoration.
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The endeavour by archaeologists to match vase forms with those names that have come down to us from Greek literature began with Theodor Panofka’s 1829 book Recherches sur les veritables noms des vases grecs, whose confident assertion that he had rediscovered the ancient nomenclature was quickly disputed by Gerhard and Letronne.
Red Figure Vases of South Italy and Sicily by A.D. Trendall (ISBN 978-0500202258) The History of Greek Vases by John Boardman (ISBN 978-0500285930) Vase-Painting in Italy by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (ISBN 978-0878464067) Arthur Dale Trendall; Ian McPhee: Greek red-figured fish-plates, Antike Kunst, Beiheft 14, Basel 1987
Ichthys was adopted as a Christian symbol.. The ichthys or ichthus (/ ˈ ɪ k θ ə s / [1]), from the Greek ikhthū́s (ἰχθύς, 1st cent.AD Koine Greek pronunciation: [ikʰˈtʰys], "fish") is (in its modern rendition) a symbol consisting of two intersecting arcs, the ends of the right side extending beyond the meeting point so as to resemble the profile of a fish.
English: A derivative work based on a public domain image of an Ancient Greek black-figure vase painting depicting the blinding of Polyphemus with a hot pointed stick. . Males are depicted nude as in original painting, other sailors have been removed and some proportions have been ch
Situla is also the term for types of bucket-shaped Ancient Greek vases, some very finely painted. [1] More utilitarian pottery situlae are also found, and some in silver or other materials, [2] such as two glass ones from late antiquity in St Mark's, Venice. Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern shapes tend to have a pointed bottom, so that they ...
The Dipylon Amphora (also known as Athens 804) is a large Ancient Greek painted vase, made around 760–750 BC, and is now held by the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Discovered at the Dipylon cemetery, this stylistic vessel belonging to the Geometric period is credited to an unknown artist: the Dipylon Master.