The Greeks invented democracy, started the Olympics, built the foundations of Western arts and culture, and loved a good party. Read about Greek history and politics from the Archaic period through the Hellenistic period.
Самое время перебрать фотографии. Начнем с не самых старых - летних, с Крита. Обещала показать вам керамику камарес, вот, показываю. Настоящая типичная камарес выглядит так - белый, красные и желтые линии и орнаменты на черном фоне. Она аутентична для Крита и является характерным продуктом яркой и…
Античная вазопись Менада и сатир. Воспроизведение красно-фигурной росписи. См. илл #33 / A depiction of a male figure with the tail of an animal and a laurel wreath on his head entertaining a female companion. Photomechanical process. Size: image 11.2 x 11.5 cm. Collection: Iconographic…
The scene on this vase shows a later moment in the myth of Danaë and Perseus. Having been warned by an oracle that his grandson would kill him, Akrisios locked Danaë and her young son in a chest and set it afloat. Danaë and Perseus sit in the open chest while Akrisios, a young girl and a maidservant bid farewell.
We haven't been writing our blog because we have been very very busy with speech writing, reading, spelling, fractions, decimals, art, Maori, Mandarin, cross-country training and Ancient Greece Study...... Our new art project is designing Greek vases. We had to choose a character from a Greek Myth and illustrate him/her/it for our pattern. The next step was to dye it orange. Do feel free to come and have a look at our creations!
“The Process was eventually refined and became known as black-figure pottery after 600 BC, the archaic age. Notable for their black figures and usually orange backgrounds and greater attention to detail, as well as a focus on humans. Sometimes, white was used as a third color.”
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Since the last two posts concerning mollusks have also involved the classical Mediterranean world (where cuttlefish ink was used for writing/drawing and murex mucous was employed as a costly dye), …
THE ARCHAIC PERIOD The term Archaic was coined in the 18th century by art historians in order to describe the […]
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30.11.2013: about to kill himself, vase from Lekythos, c460/50 BC. Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, Basel.
“Many of us…have a feeling that we are living in a country where fanatics, hooligans and eccentrics have got the upper hand.” Horace Rumbold, British Ambassador to Berlin, 1933 …
Achilles The hero of the Trojan War, leader of the Myrmidons, slayer of Hector and Greece's greatest warrior, who sadly came unstuck when Paris sent a flying arrow guided by Apollo, which caught...
This small mixing vessel shows a finely dressed woman seated on a chest and holding up a mirror to admire herself. Before her stands Eros, the winged god of love, holding a ribbon or sash. Behind the
What's in a kiss? These smooching milestones will inspire you to pucker up.
Long before Homer, the seafaring civilization of Bronze Age Crete, known today as Minoan, established trade connections with Egypt.
Minoan, Late Minoan I ca. 1600-1500 B.C. Terracotta From Knossos Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC
