Название: Early Greek Vase Painting
Автор: John Boardman
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Серия: World of Art
Год: 1998
ISBN: 0500203091
Язык: English
Страниц: 287
Формат: English
Размер: 154 МВ

This book completes John Boardman's study of Greek vase painting in the World of Art. The author demonstrates that all the components of Greek art that were to culminate in the Classical styles of the fifth century can be traced in the development of vase painting in early Greece, from the eleventh to the sixth centuries B.C. The vases are the most prolific source for this study, as well as being invaluable documents of society, religion, trade, and colonization. The works discussed here display the Greek painter's craft at its most mathematical, its most colorful, and in its most directly narrative mode. The later achievements of Greek art can only be fully understood in light of this formative period of variety, competition, and experiment.