ANCIENT GREECE
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• The Origins of Greek Art, the Bronze Age, and the Geometric Style (3200-720 BC) in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris
• Archiac Greek Art (7th - 6th Centuries BC in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris
• Classical Greek Art (5th - 4th Centuries BC in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris
• Hellenistic Art (3rd - 1st Centuries BC in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris
• Ancient Greek Cities (Ellen Papakyriakou/Anagnostou), with links to
  • Ancient Athens
  • Ancient Sikyon/Sicyon
  • Ancient Corinth
  • Ancient Sparta
  • Ancient Thebes
  • Ancient Argos
  • Ancient Mykenae/Mycenae
  • Ancient Delphi
  • Ancient Olympia
• Perseus Project: An Evolving Digital Library on Ancient Greece (Gregory Crane, Editor-in-Chief, Tufts University) - Art and Archaeology, which access to:
  • Architecture Catalog
  • Site Catalog
  • Coin Catalog
  • Vase Catalog
  • Sculpture Catalog
• The Greeks (PBS presentation), including some links to Greek Architecture
  • The Buildings of the Acropolis
  • The Parthenon
  • Inside the Parthenon
    plus
    
  • The Colonus Agoraeus
  • The Houses of Athens
  • The Oracle at Delphi
  • The Pynx
• Greek Architecture (part of 40 Centuries of Architecture, through Thais)
  • Localities Index
  • Subject Index
  • Periods Index
• The Beazley Archive (University of Oxford), with links to
  • Databases
    • Pottery
    • Inscriptions on Athenian pottery c. 625-300 BC
    • Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
    • Plaster Casts
    • Engraved Gems and Cameos
    • Antiquarian Photographs and Glass Slides
    • Antiquarian books
  • Pottery
    • Techniques and styles
      • Timescale
      • Chronology - Athenian Pottery
      • Orientalizing
      • Corinthian pottery - an introduction
      • Fifth-century Athens
      • Pottery shapes (see also Shapes - introduction)
      • Athenian pottery: techniques of decoration
      • Painting on pottery
      • Vase painting and the history of art
      • Identification of individual painters
    • Collection and scholarship
      • Ancient authors and modern archaeologists
      • Classical antiquities and fine art
      • Sir John Beazley
    • Connoisseurship: Introduction to Sir John Beazley's drawings
      • Fragmentary cup
      • Anonymous painters
      • Sir John Beazley's drawings
    • Painters and potters (a list with links, from 625 to the 4th century)
    • Shapes - introduction
      • Amphorae
        • Belly amphora
        • Panathenaic prize amphora
        • Neck-amphora
        • Pelike
      • Kraters
        • Column-krater
        • Volute-krater
        • Calyx-krater
        • Bell-krater
        • Psykter
      • Other vessels for carrying liquids
        • Lebes or Dinos
        • Loutrophoros
        • Hydria
        • Stamnos
      • Pouring vessels
        • Oinochoe, olpe and chous
        • Kyathos
      • Cups and other drinking vessels
        • Cups: Komast, Siana, Little Master, Type A, Type B, Type C, Stemless
        • Skyphos, mastos and mastoid cups
        • Kantharos
        • Rhyton, head-vase and figure-vase
        • Phiale
      • Small closed shapes
        • Aryballos
        • Lekythos
        • Alabastron
        • Askos
        • Pyxis and Exaleiptron
      • Other shapes
    • Inscriptions
      • Names of figures and objects
      • Exclamations
      • Painter and potter signatures
      • Kalos inscriptions
    • Find places - trade and distribution
  • Gems
    • Styles and periods
    • Tassie Gems, 15,800 items collected by James Tassie (1735-1799)
    • Classical Phoenician Scarab Corpus
    • The Danicourt collection of gems in Péronne (see also Alfred Danicourt Musée Municipal de Péronne)
    • The Poniatowski Collection of Gems, about 2500 gems commissioned by Prince Stanislas Poniatowski (1754-1833)
  • Sculpture
    • An introduction to classical sculpture
      • Archaic period (8th - early 5th century BC), and page 2
      • The Classical period (5th - 4th century BC) (first of five pages)
      • Hellenistic sculpture
        • Deities
        • Narrative groups
        • Athlete and hero figures
        • The remoter kingdoms
      • Introduction to architectural sculpture
        • Archaic
        • Classical, page 2, page 3
      • Introduction to grave monuments
        • Archaic grave markers: Figures in the round
        • Archaic grave makrers: Attic relief gravestones (stelai)
        • Archaic grave markers: Non-Attic relief gravestones
        • Classical grave markers: Attic gravestones
        • Classical grave markers: Non-Attic gravestones
        • Sarcophagi
        • Anatolian monuments, and page 2
        • Hellenistic gravestones
      • Votive, cult and commemorative monuments
        • Gods and heroes
        • Symbolic figures, Action groups, Portraits
        • Votive reliefs
        • Record reliefs
      • Portraiture (first of four pages)
    • Plaster casts and the diffusion of classical art
      • Classical archaeology
      • Discovery, reception and diffusion of classical art
      • Copies and restoration
      • Gardens
      • Artists and their use of plaster casts
      • Excavations
      • Napoleon's invasion of Italy
      • L'Atelier de moulage
      • The Great Exhibition
      • The foreign and the exotic
      • Academic study of classical archaeology
      • Gems
      • Architectural models
      • Painted pottery
      • The academic discipline of classical archaeology
      • Cast collections
      • Lincoln Professorship
    • How casts are made
      • Traditional method - make a mould
      • A modern method of casting
    • History of the cast collection - introduction (first of ten pages)
    • Casts in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
  • Studies in the History of Collections: Volume 1 The Reception of Classical Art in Britain: An Oxford Story of Plaster Casts from the Antique
    • Table of Contents
    • Catalogue of Casts, with over 900 illustrations
  • Antiquaria
    • Photographs and glass slides (see the Collection)
  • Dictionary
  • Tools, including Bibliographies for
    • General books
    • Classical Greek Architecture
    • Gems
    • Pottery
    • Sculpture
    • Coins
    • History of collections (classical antiquities)
    • The reception of classical art bibliography
• Greek Art (through ArtLex)
• Greek Vases in the Gregorian Etruscan Museum (through The Holy See, The Vatican)
  • Rooms XVII and XVIII. Collection of Vases, Corinthian, laconic, Attic ceramics with black figures
  • Room XIX. Collection of Vases, Attic ceramics with black figures and with red figures
  • Room XX. Astarita Collection, Greek and Etruscan ceramics
  • Room XXI. Collection of Vases, Attic ceramics with red figures
  • Room XXII. Collection of Vases, Italiot and Etruscan ceramics with red figures
• Greek Vases in Part I, and Part II of the collection of The Etruscan Museum (Museo Gregoriano) at the Vatican: (through Christus Rex), with links to (large) images:
  • Amphora of Exekias, circa 530 B.C.
  • Red-figured hydria, circa 490 B.C., painted by the "painter of Berlin"
  • Black-figured column krater, circa 560 B.C.
  • Black-figured amphora, circa 530 B.C., attributed to the Painter of the Vatican Mourner (his name piece)
  • Black-figured kylix, circa 555 B.C., attributed to the Arkesilas Painter
  • Black-figured olpe, circa 630-615 B.C., attributed to the Painter of Vatican (his name piece)
  • Red-figured hydria, circa 510 B.C., attributed to Euthymides
  • Red-figured amphora, circa 450 B.C., attributed to the Achilles Painter (his name piece)
  • Red-figured kylix, circa 470 B.C., attributed to the Oedipus Painter (his name piece)
  • Whiteground calyx-krater, circa 440-430 B.C., attributed to the Phiale Painter
  • Red-figured bell krater, circa 350-325 B.C., attributed to the Aestas
• Greek Art & Archaeology
• Acropolis of Athens reconstructed (through the Museum of Reconstructions)
• Ancient Greece in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
• The New Greek Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, with links to
  • Timeline
  • Menu of the Art Objects
  • Geographical Map
  • Map of the Galleries
• Greek Architecture (part of a History of Western Architecture, through the Leo Masuda Architectonic Research Office), with links to
  • Korinthos
  • Parthenon
  • Electeion
  • Odeon of Herodes Atticus
  • Temple of Hephaestos
  • Monument of Lysicrates
  • Temple of Zeus Olympios
  • Delphi
  • Argos
  • Epidauros
• The Theatre at Segesta, Sicily (through the Digital Imaging Project, Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College)
• Greek Sculpture (through Mark Harden's Artchive)
• The Greek Orders: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian (through Jeffery Howe's Digital Archive of European Architecture, Boston College)
• Greek Sculpture (through Jeffery Howe's Digital Archive of Art: Online images from Boston College)
• Greek World II, Geometric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Gandhara (in The George Ortiz Collection)
• Greek Art (Mark Harden's Texas.net Museum of Art ARTCHIVE)
• Images of the Trojan War Myth in Ancient Art
• Images of Heracles in Ancient Art
• The Statue of Hermes in the Vatican Museum (through the Digital Imaging Project, Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College)
• The Ancient City of Athens
  • Sites and Monuments
    • Athens
      • Acropolis, with links to images of
        • General Views of the Acropolis
        • The Archaic Acropolis
        • The Propylaia
        • The Temple of Athena Nike
        • The Parthenon
        • The Erechtheion
      • Acropolis - South Slope, plus Images
      • Acropolis - North Slope, plus Images
      • Acropolis - East Slope, plus Images
      • The Agora, plus Images
      • Eleusinion in Athens, plus Images
      • Kerameikos, plus Images
      • Library of Hadrian, plus Images
      • The Lysikrates Monument & Street of the Tripods, plus Images
      • The Philopappos Monument, plus Images
      • The Pnyx, plus Images
      • The Roman Agora & the Tower of the Winds, plus Images
    • Brauron: The Sanctuary of Artemis, plus Images
  • Essays & Other Resources
• The Parthenon (through Great Buildings Online)
• The CSA Propylaea Project (through the Center for the Study of Architecture [CSA] and Bryn Mawr College)
  • Photographs of the Propylaea
• Temple of Athena Nike (through Great Buildings Online)
• Stoa of Attalus (through Great Buildings Online)
• Temples at Paestum (through Great Buildings Online)
• Paestum, Italy (through the Digital Imaging Project, Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College)
  • Temple of Hera I (the so-called "Basilica")
  • Temple of Hera II (once thought to be the Temple of Poseidon)
• Computer Reconstruction of the Temple of Hera II (Temple of Poseidon) at Paestum
• W. R. Lethaby, The Tomb of Mausolus, London: B. T. Batsford, 1908 (through Bill Thayer's Lacus Curtius)
• The Statue of Laocoön and His Sons in the Vatican Museum (through the Digital Imaging Project, Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College)