This volume makes available the fascinating yet under-publicized vases in the Marischal museum, University of Aberdeen. The range includes Attic black and red figure of extremely high quality, Etruscan bucchero, and South Italian red figure. A detailed introduction discusses the history of the acquisition of the collections, collection management and display.
This volume makes available the fascinating yet under-publicized vases in the Marischal museum, University of Aberdeen. The range includes Attic black...
"Greek Vases" is a discussion of the painted vases which were an ever-present but understated feature of life in the Greek world between the end of the Bronze Age and the rise of Rome, and, in the modern world, an important component of museum collections since the eighteenth century. The book uses specific illustrated examples to explore the archaeological use of vases as chronological indicators, the use of the various shapes, their scenes of myth and everyday life and what these tell us, the way in which we think about their makers, and how they are treated today as museum objects and...
"Greek Vases" is a discussion of the painted vases which were an ever-present but understated feature of life in the Greek world between the end of...
