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Ancient Greek Vases

Terracotta vases adorned with mythological scenes and athletic contests, showcasing the artistry and themes of ancient Greek culture.

Attic Black-Figure Lekythos; Gela Painter (Greek (Attic), active about 510 - 490 B.C.); Athens, Greece; about 500 B.C; Terracotta; 23.4 × 3.2 cm (9 3,16 × 1 1,4 in.)
Attic Black-Figure Lekythos; Gela Painter (Greek (Attic), active about 510 - 490 B.C.); Athens, Greece; about 500 B.C; Terracotta; 23.4 × 3.2 cm (9 3,16 × 1 1,4 in.)
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Apulian Fish-Plate. Attributed to the Scottsdale Painter (Greek (Apulian))
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CERMICA-BOTE CON ESCENA DE CUPIDO. Location: MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS. GRANADA. SPAIN. CUPID. AMOR MITOLOGIA.
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Panathenaic amphora decorated with figure of racing chariot
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Lekythos ca. 440 B.C. Attributed to the Group of Naples Stg. 252. Lekythos. Greek, Attic. ca. 440 B.C.. Terracotta; red-figure. Classical. Vases
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Attic Black-Figure Volute Krater Fragment. Unknown
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Bronzekanne.. Prints. 1912. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection
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Bronze hydria (water jar). Culture: Greek. Dimensions: H. 19 3/4 in. (50.2 cm). Date: 4th century B.C..The elegant ovoid shape of this vase and the inclusion of a figural relief under the vertical handle are found on most bronze hydriae of the fourth century B.C. Here the decoration is particularly refined. Inlays of silver and niello (a black alloy of sulfur, silver, copper, and lead) animated the egg-and-dart band on the lip and the leaves on the foot. The relief shows a winged Eros arranging his hair in a mirror. He leans on a small statue of a woman. It imitates the rigid stance and stiff drapery found on Archaic figures of the sixth century B.C. The support forms an interesting contrast to the figure of Eros, which reflects the taste for somewhat effeminate male figures in curvacious, languid poses that marked full-scale sculpture of the period. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Attic Black-Figure Neck Amphora; Attributed to Painter of London E543, Greek (Attic), active about 540 B.C.; Athens, Greece, Europe; about 540 B.C.; Terracotta; Object: H: 36.2 x Diam. (body): 28.6 cm (14 1/4 x 11 1/4 in.)
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Panathenaic vase showing Athena and Pegasus shield. 4th-5th cent. BC. Black Figure vase. GREECE.
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Museo archeologico, Archeological Museum, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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Oenochoe (or oinochoe, wine jug) depicting men pulling a rope (probably Greek men pulling the Trojan Horse), 630 B.C., fragment
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PLATO. ATAIFOR FASE TAIFA. Nº INV. 73/48/30. ALTURA 5 CM. DIAMETRO 17, 5 CM. MUSULMAN. (EXPOSICION: ARTE ISLAMICO ESPAÑOL) (DEPOSITO: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL).
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Campanian Neck-Amphora. Attributed to Caivano Painter (Greek, active 340 - 330 B.C.)
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Greek vase painting. Triptolemos takes gift of corn to mankind. Makron Painter. 500-480 BC.
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Kylix, eye-cup. Culture: Greek, Attic. Dimensions: Diameter: 8 1/16 × 3 3/16 in. (20.5 × 8.1 cm)Height: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)Width: 10 5/8 in. (27 cm). Date: ca. 540-530 B.C..Interior, Medusa head; exterior, A, between eyes, three satyrs, one riding a mule; B, three satyrs between eyes. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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PELIKE CON VENDEDORA. GRIEGO CERAMICA. (DEPOSITO: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL).
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Bowl decorated with young men using strigils. Gouache painting.
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Red-figure pottery, pointed amphora by Perugia painter
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Greek civilization, Red-figure pottery, Pinax depicting ritual, Ex-voto from Eleusis, Greece
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Plate. Culture: Greek, Attic. Dimensions: Overall: 13/16 in. (2.1 cm)Other: 6 3/8in. (16.2cm). Date: ca. 500 B.C..Herakles with bow, club, and sword. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Terracotta lebes gamikos (jar associated with weddings) with lid 3rd century B.C. Greek, Sicilian, Centuripe High handles, polychrome decoration with portrait head of a woman.. Terracotta lebes gamikos (jar associated with weddings) with lid 251547
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Above, red-figured Greek wine bowl (column krater); below, detail of the decoration showing two women and a satyr. Watercolour by A. Dahlstein, 1760/1780 ().
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Portland vase ca. 1840-60 Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Josiah Wedgwood, whose ceramic creations evoked the styles and themes of antiquity so popular in the late eighteenth century, produced a copy of the celebrated Portland Vase in black-and-white jasper-ware. The original, attributed to the Roman gem-cutter Dioskourides, is in the style of works made between 30 and 20 B.C. After its discovery in the late sixteenth century in the tomb of the Emperor Septimius Severus, it became one of the most admired works of antiquity and passed through an illustrious series of collections, among them those of Cardinal Barberini, Sir William Hamilton, and finally, the duchess of Portland, who donated it to the British Museum. The iconography of the original black-and-white cameo-cut glass vessel remains a mystery, though many interpretations have been offered. A recent theory is that the frieze depicts (as the vessel is turned) Peleus entering to meet Thetis in the presence of her parents and Aphrodite a
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Tuscany Livorno Castiglioncello Archaeological Museum. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Antiquities: Photos of a terracotta vase with details. General Notes: No Hutzel photo campaign notes. Negatives are missing. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.
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Attic Red-Figure Pelike Fragment. Geras Painter (Greek (Attic), active 480 - 470 B.C.)
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Attic Black-Figure Siana Cup Fragment. Unknown
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Vase depicting a youth and a woman. By the Painter of Bologna 322. Dated
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Attic Black-Figure Stamnos. Beaune Painter (Greek (Attic))
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Terracotta lekythos (oil flask). Culture: Greek, Attic. Dimensions: H. 12 1/2 in. (31.7 cm). Date: ca. 430-420 B.C..Horseman and tombHorsemen and chariots have a long tradition in Greek funerary iconography. In this very late manifestation, the rapidity but surety of execution heightens the question of whether the scene is to be understood literally or whether the horseman is a representation of the deceased. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Ancient Greece. Attic red-figure. 5th century B.C. Erotic scene. National Archaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.
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Etruscan civilization, 4th century b.c. Red-figure pottery. Kylix or cup by the painter D of the Tondo Group of Chiusi, depicting Dionysus and Maenad, 330 b.c. From Chiusi, Siena province, Italy.
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Pitcher with a depiction of the drunken Dionysus supported by a Satyr at the attachment of the vertical handle. 350 BC. From a tomb at Eretria, Euboea.
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ANFORA GRIEGA DECORADA CON PUGILISTAS. Location: MUSEO DEL LOUVRE-CERAMICA. France.
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Terracotta kylix: band-cup (drinking cup) ca. 550 B.C. Attributed to the Oakeshott Painter Obverse, return of HephaistosReverse, Dionysos, the god of wine, and Ariadne among satyrs and maenadsThe subject here is the same as on the two kraters by Lydos. The band is treated as a frieze with particular emphasis on the central motif. Hephaistos, who rides his mule as though it were a horse, is escorted by Dionysos. The wine god reappears on the reverse with Ariadne, whom he had rescued when she was abandoned on the island of Naxos. The lively figures and considerable added red and white are most appropriate for a drinking cup that could well have been used with kraters (bowls for mixing wine and water) like those by Lydos.. Terracotta kylix: band-cup (drinking cup). Greek, Attic. ca. 550 B.C.. Terracotta; black-figure. Archaic. Vases
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Red-figure pottery, detail of cup with pair of lovers
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Attic Red-Figure Squat Lekythos. Unknown
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Bull jumping. Mural. Knossos Palace dated to 2000 BC is considered to be Europe's oldest City. Crete. Greece.
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Attic Red-Figure Cup Fragment.
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Plate decorated with red-figure vase painting, an important style of Greek vase painting. Dated 2nd Century BC
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Red Figure from from Kylix, Circa 460 BC, USA, Florida, Jacksonville, The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens
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Cylinder Vessel with Hero Twins and Lords of Death. Maya, 600-900 CE. Ceramics. Slip-painted ceramic
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Corinthian Alabastron. Attributed to the Dolphin Painter (Greek (Corinthian), active 620 - 590 B.C.)
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Lazio Viterbo Viterbo Museo Civico60. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Views of paintings (Middle Ages through 18th c.), frescoes, a tabernacle, coffin, sculpture reliefs, portal fragments, busts, sculpture, tapestry found in the Pinacoteca, Second floor gallery and Second floor cloister sequences. Antiquities: Many views of Etruscan and Roman fragments, sculpture, sarcophagi, pottery, masks, jewelry and other objects found in the Storeroom sequence (inventory numbers on back of prints), and the Cloister, Second floor Cloister, Valle Giulia, Sala Romana and Sala Etrusca sequences. General Notes: There are eight separate numerical sequences for this location. The cloister as an architectural structure, rather than museum site, is documented in the record and file for S. Maria della Verita, Cloister, all views of which are stored in Medieval core collection. Five views from the Museo Civico Second floor cloister sequence are stored in Medieval. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-
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Jarra de boca trilobulada con escena de doma, siglo I a.C. Procedente de Numancia, Garray, museo Numantino de Soria, Soria, Comunidad Autonoma de Castilla, Spain, Europe
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Ancient Greek Phalanx, Trojan War. Retrieval Patroclus Body Homer Pottery, National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece. From Farsala 510-500 BC
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Spout Vessel Depicting Two Skeletal Figures in Erotic Scene Attached to Handle Made 100 BCE-500 CE Peru. Ceramic and pigment . Moche
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Kylix (Drinking Cup). Greek; Athens; Manner of the Epeleios Painter. Date: 510 BC-500 BC. Dimensions: 14 x 40.3 x 31.1 cm (5 1/2 x 15 7/8 x 12 1/4 in.). Terra-cotta, decorated in the red-figure technique. Origin: Attica. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.
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Historical print from the 19th century, facsimile of a vase painting from about 400 BC depicting Dionysus with Nature Deities, Greece, Europe
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Vessel with Young Lord and Monkey. Maya, 600-800 CE. Ceramics. Slip-painted ceramic
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The destruction of the Portland Vase in February 1845, by a visitor to the British Museum. The vase, originally known as the Barberini Vase, was discovered in the 16th century at the Monte del Grano, two miles outside of Rome. Date: 15th Feb 1845
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Baptismal font of copper, cast iron (1149), vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1880.
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Lazio Roma Grottaferrata Museo60. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.
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Cáliz de Galcera de Vilanova, 1390. Museu Diocesà d'Urgell.
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Coupe de Vulci, (No. 1) still image. 1862 - 1864. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. flutes, Athletes, Musicians , Greece , To 499, Javelin throwing, Sports , Greece , To 499