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Greek Vases

Greek Vases in New Contexts: The Collecting and Trading of Greek vases - An Aspect of the Modern Reception of Antiquity
by Vinnie Norskov
Greek vases have been among antiquity's most widely collected artefacts since the 18th century. This volume examines trends in the collection and trade of Greek vases in the years since World War II. Norskov combines a detailed historical narrative with case studies of eight major museum collections, plus an analysis of auction and dealer documents listing 18,000 Greek vases, to provide a comprehensive overview of the subject. The volume ...
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Athenian Potters and Painters Volume II
edited by John H. Oakley and Olga Palagia
This volume presents the proceedings of the second Athenian Potters and Painters conference, which was held at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens 2007. Together with the 1994 conference (Volume I, Oxbow 1997), these are the first of their kind - focusing purely on Athenian pottery and addressing key aspects of its study. The thirty-two papers contained here are the result not only of a large amount of new material but also the ...
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Athenian Potters and Painters
edited by John H.Oakley, William D.E.Coulson and Olga Palagia
A mass of new material on Greek vases is included in this huge volume of proceedings from an international conference held at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in December 1994. The forty three papers include: New light on the earliest Attic black-figure drinking cups (Herman A G Brijder); 'Attic vases, Etruscan stories' - Les échanges et les hommes (N Malagradis)l Eleusis in Athenian vase-painting (E ...
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Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain Fascicule 25, The British Museum Fascicule 11: Greek Geometric Pottery
by J.N. Coldstream
The British Museum's holding of Greek Geometric pottery comprises 200 items, covering the period from the 10th to the 7th century BC. Most of these pieces have never been published before. The bulk of the collection - 123 pieces - is Attic, but eleven other regional styles are also represented. These include not only mainland Greek fabrics such as Argive, Boeotian, Corinthian and Laconian, but also the island fabrics of the Cyclades and Crete, as ...
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Trademarks on Greek Vases: Addenda
by Alan W Johnston
More than twenty years on from the publication of Trademarks on Greek Vases, this Addenda brings up to date the evidence from finds, improving on the cataloguing of the original, and adding in newly discovered examples, many sadly having surfaced via the antiquities market. It contains a completely new catalogue of finds, and supplementary text. It is richly illustrated with line drawings of the marks and photographs of some of the ...
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Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain Fascicule 20, British Museum Fascicule 10: Fragments from Sir William Hamiltons second collection of vases recovered from the wreck of HMS Colossus
Smallwood, Valerie
The fragments of Greek painted pottery making up the 115 catalogue entries in this volume come from vases that were once part of Sir William Hamiltons prized second collection. About one third of that collection was lost when the ship transporting it back to England, HMS Colossus, struck a reef and sank off the Isles of Scilly in December 1798. The recovery of what remained of those vases, after almost 200 years on the seabed, took place between ...
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The Castellani Fragments in the Villa Giulia, Volume 2: Atheian Black Figure
by Helene Blinkenberg Hastrup
The vast Castellani collection of ancient Greek pottery, now housed in the Villa Giulia Museum in Rome, has been studied by several scholars, notable Paolo Mingazzini, who published part of the collection. A great deal, however, particularly the fragments, remains unpublished. The aim of this volume is to make this important collection of Athenian Black Figure fragments available to all students of Greek pottery. Each piece is illustrated and ...
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The Castellani Fragments in the Villa Giulia Volume 1: Athenian Black Figure
by Lise Hannestad
The vast Castellani collection of ancient Greek pottery, now housed in the Villa Giulia Museum in Rome, has been studied by several scholars, notably Paolo Mingazzini who published part of the collection. A great deal, however, especially fragments and fragmentary pieces, remains unpublished. The aim of the publication of the Athenian Black Figure fragments is to make this important material available to all students of Greek pottery. The first ...
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Early Black-Figured Pottery of Attika in Context (c. 630-570 BCE)
by Alexandra Alexandridou
This volume aims at a comprehensive contextual analysis of early Attic black-figure pottery production. After an outline of early research, Alexandridou studies the shapes and their functions, the painters, the iconography, the distribution and the trade mechanisms of Attic pottery, and finally provides an overview of archaic Attika through its painted pottery. 252p b/w pls (Brill 2011)
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Greek Vases: Gods, Heroes and Mortals
by Annike Backe-Dahmen, Ursula Kastner and Agnes Schwarzmeier
This is a lavishly illustrated catalogue of the finest Greek Vases in the state museums of Berlin. As the title suggests, a number of the vases selected depict mythological scenes, but this is by no means exclusively the case - depictions of daily life also abound, including education, sport, crafts, and of course drinking parties. The vases are all photographed in full colour with detailed descriptions placing the scenes in context. 128p col ...
Paperback. Price GB £14.95