Author: Museo Arqueológico Nacional (Spain)

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780870744891

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 Italic vases. Monuments to the search by Greek artists for the means of realizing on a small scale, and on a two-dimensional surface, accurate renderings of the human form, human spaces, and divine narratives, these painted vessels are masterpieces of the potter’s craft and the painter’s art. The Greek artists represented--including the Athenians: Andokides, the Berlin Painter, Epiktetos, the Painter of the Madrid Fountain, the Tarquinia Painter, as well as the Baltimore Painter of Magna Graecia--are some 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 vase 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. Featured in this volume are essays by prominent scholars Paloma Cabrera, Karl Kilinski II, Jenifer Neils, Ann Steiner, Sarah Peirce, and P. Gregory Warden, who approach the general subject from an iconographical as well as purely aesthetic point of view.