Catalogue of Greek Vases in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge

Klappentext This 1897 book was written to provide archaeologists and visitors with a guide to Greek vases in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Zusammenfassung This 1897 book was written to provide both archaeologists and visitors with an accessible guide to Greek vases in the Fitzwilliam Museum. The text contains illustrations of every vase in the collection! except those that reproduce well-known and common types; these illustrations replace lengthy description and allow for easy identification of subject and style. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; 1. Primitive island pottery; 2. Mycenaean pottery; 3. Geometrical style; 4. So-called Proto-Corinthian'; 5. Ordinary 'Corinthian ware'; 6. Rhodian pottery; 7. Black-figured vases, design and ornament covering whole surface of vase; 8. Black-figured vases, hydriae and amphorae, with design in panel; 9. Cylices - black figured; 10. Red-figured cylices; 11. Lecythi, black-figured on red ground; 12. Lecythi, outline and polychrome painting on white ground; 13. Alabastra, with white ground; 14. Lecythi, with red figures; 15. Oval-bodied lecythi; 16. Miniature jugs, probably toys; 17. Oenochoae; 18. Nolan amphorae; 19. Pyxis, red figured; 20. Oval lecythi, plain; 21. Various; 22. Vases without figures, mostly covered with black varnish; 23. Black wares, with ornamentation in white or other pigments over black; 24. Moulded bowls, megara class; 25. Vases with impressed patterns; 26. Vases from Italy, Sicily, &c.; 27. Sardinian; 28. Italy; 29. Early Italian; 30. South Italian vases, red-figured; 31. Vases, with white or coloured ornamentation over black ground; 32. Table case: fragments from Naucratis; Indices: I. Artists' signatures; II. Other painted inscriptions; III. Inscriptions referring to figures; IV. Graffiti; V. Subjects represented.

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• Authors: Ernest Arthur Gardner
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.2013
• EAN: 9781107638075
• ISBN: 978-1-107-63807-5
• No. of pages: 180
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; ART / Ceramics, Ancient Greece, Ceramic arts, pottery, glass, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, ART / Glass, History of Art, Ancient World, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, Archaeology by period / region, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Ancient Greek style, Ceramics, mosaic and glass: artworks