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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 ...
Greek coins are the only art form from the ancient Greek world which can still be bought and owned by private collectors of modest means. The most widespread coins, used far beyond their native territories and copied and forged by others, were the Athenian tetradrachm , issued from c. 510 to c. 38 BC , and in the Hellenistic age the Macedonian ...
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 ...
The wall paintings of ancient Thera are famous frescoes discovered by Spyridon Marinatos at the excavations of Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini (or Thera). They are regarded as part of Minoan art , although the culture of Thera was somewhat different from that of Crete , and the political relationship between the two islands at the ...
The history of Ancient Greek pottery is divided stylistically into periods: the Protogeometric, the Geometric, the Late Geometric or Archaic, the Black Figure, and the Red Figure. Ancient Greek art has survived most successfully in the forms of sculpture and architecture, as well as in such minor arts as coin design, pottery, and gem engraving.
Byzantine art grew from the art of ancient Greece and, at least before 1453, never lost sight of its classical heritage, but was distinguished from it in a number of ways. The most profound of these was that the humanist ethic of ancient Greek art was replaced by the Christian ethic.
Sophilos (Ancient Greek: Σώφιλος; active about 590 – 570 BC) was an Attic potter and vase painter in the black-figure style. Sophilos is the oldest Attic vase painter so far to be known by his true name. Fragments of two wine basins in Athens are signed by him, indicating that he both potted and painted them.
Side A from an Ancient Greek black-figured amphora painted by Antimenes, ca. 525 BC, from Etruria. Louvre, Paris. Ajax, protected by Hermes and Athena carries the body of Achilles back to the Greek camp, 520–510 BC, Louvre. The Antimenes Painter was an Attic vase painter of the black-figure style, active between circa 530 and 510 BC.