Greek Vase Painting: Form, Figure and Narrative - Hardcover

Warden, P. Gregory

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870744895 ISBN 13: 9780870744891

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press, 2004

Synopsis

This publication, produced in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title at the Meadows Museum, Dallas, highlights the development of Greek art from the dawn of the Iron Age to the age of Alexander, featuring forty-four exceptional ancient Greek, Etruscan, and the Italic vases. Monuments to the search by Greek artists for the means of realizing of the human form, human spaces, and divine narratives, these painted vessels are masterpieces of the potter's craft and painter's art. The Greek artists represented - including the athenians, Andokides, the Berlin Painter, Epiktetos, the Painter of the Madrid Foundation, the Tarquinia Painter, as well as the Baltimore Painter of Magna Graecia- are come of the masters of the medium, and the varied types of vessels span the ancient Greek and Italian world both chronologically and geographically. Reproduced in ninety color plates and accompanied by critical texts documenting each face and interpreting the meaning of the painted subjects, content of the painting, the vases commend themselves not only for their quality and excellent state of preservation, but for their range of imagery. Many are published here for the first time.

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About the Author:

PALOMA CABRERA has been the Chief Curator of the Roman and Greek Antiquities Department at the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid since 1992. She is a specialist in Greek ceramics and has published numerous works related to the colonization and commerce of the Greeks in Spain. Recently, her research has been

centered in studying the iconography of vases from Magna Graecia.

KARL KILINSKI II, Professor of Art History at Southern Methodist University, teaches classes on Greek and Egyptian art. He holds degrees in Anthropology and Classical Art History & Archaeology and is currently researching and writing a monograph entitled The Presence of the Past: Greek Myth in Western Art.

JENIFER NEILS , Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History and Classics at Case Western Reserve University, is most recently the author of The Parthenon Frieze (Cambridge 2001) and co-author of the exhibition catalogue Coming of Age in Ancient Greece (Yale 2003).

SARAH PEIRCE, Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Language at Fordham University, studies the representation of Greek religion in classical vase-painting. Her forthcoming book on the Lenaia Vases will be published by Cambridge University Press.

ANN STEINER, Shirley Watkins Steinman Professor of Classics at Franklin & Marshall College, specializes in the study of Greek vases in their social context. She is Director of Research for the Mugello Valley Archaeological Project excavations at Poggio Colla. Her forthcoming book, Reading Greek Vases, will be published by Cambridge University Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0870744895
• ISBN 13: 9780870744891
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168