Description
This can be a choice of essays by distinguished scholars so as to introduce the student or museum-goer to the study of Greek vases. Even if the book is more or less chronological in arrangement–beginning with the appearance of human figures on Geometric vases, and ending with their virtual disappearance from Hellenistic pottery–it’s not a history of Greek vase painting, or a handbook. It offers as a substitute a series of suggestions on find out how to read the incessantly complex images presented by Greek vases, and also explains how the vases were made and distributed. The volume is fully illustrated during.