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Greek vases 800-300 BC: key pieces
About forty vases have been selected to give undergraduates a view of Greek painted pottery 800-300 BC. By looking closely at them you will be able to observe how shapes, techniques and styles of decoration change. Comments are made on size, shape, function, technique, style, decoration, and date, and provide a brief analysis.
Since these are original examples of ancient craftsmanship they can reveal accurately how the Greeks learned to represent the human body. Since the way the figures are shown on the vases can be compared with representations in other media, for example, sculpture, they can help you to date a broad range of objects.
- View all pieces by size
- View all pieces by date
- View individual pieces:
- Geometric
- Protoattic
- Corinthian
- Attic black-figure
- Attic red-figure
- Andokides Painter bilingual amphora
- Euphronios's 'Antaios crater'
- Euthymides's 'as never Euphronios' amphora
- Myson's 'Croesus on pyre' amphora
- Berlin Painter's name vase
- Kleophrades Painter 'Sack of Troy' hydria
- Onesimos 'Sack of Troy' cup
- Douris's 'school cup'
- Makron's 'Helen skyphos'
- Pan Painter's name vase
- Pistoxenos Painter's 'Bybax cup'
- Villa Giulia Painter stamnos with stamnoi
- Polygnotos stamnos
- Niobid Painter's name vase
- Achilles Painter name vase
- Phiale Painter 'Hermes' white lekythos
- Eretria Painter's name vase
- Meidias Painter's name vase
- Dinos Painter 'meanad' stamnos
- Pronomos Painter's name vase
- Marsyas Painter's wedding vase
- Xenophantos's signed squat lekythos
- Painter of the Nuptial Procession's hydria
- South Italian - Lucanian
- South Italian - Campanian
- South Italian - Apulian
- South Italian - Paestan