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Greek Vases Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection by Marion True, Jiri Frel, Dietrich von Bothmer

By Marion True, Jiri Frel, Dietrich von Bothmer

The eloquent fantastic thing about the vases produced within the workshops of the traditional Greeks is represented via a range of items from the wonderful inner most selection of Molly and Walter Bareiss that spans greater than one thousand years of the craft. From a pleasant miniature stirrup vase courting ca. 1300 B.C. to major examples of the molded vases from Augustan Rome, the Bareiss assortment contains a wonderful consultant assortment, guided by way of a yes intuition for the original great thing about layout and drawing. Assembled during this short catalogue are illustrated discussions of forty-seven of the masterpieces from the 258 vases at the moment on mortgage to the Getty Museum. Dietrich von Bothmer, Chairman of Greek and Roman paintings on the Metropolitan Museum of paintings, introduces this most crucial assortment, one with which he has been in detail concerned considering that its notion, advising, learning, analyzing, or even piecing jointly shattered vases. Following the person catalogue entries is a whole list of an extra 205 vases which are on personal loan to the Getty Museum.

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The unity of the shape and the representation is very marked, as there is no framing pattern. At the same time, the drawing is a little more relaxed than on the earlier vase of the Berlin Painter. Other artists may have liked wine, women, and song; the Berlin Painter loved the perfection of his art above all. 33 34 35 36 23. C. Height: 28 cm. Checklist no. 116. Herakles was indisputably the most popular hero in ancient Greece, and his struggle with the Nemean lion is the most frequently represented mythological subject in archaic vase painting.

On one side Hades, the king of the Underworld, appears beside Demeter, his unwilling mother-in-law, and Persephone, whom he abducted. Close to the potter's signature on the other side is Herakles with his protectress Athena. The groupings are significant, but the main intention of the painter was the creation of an attractive and effective decoration enhanced by extensive use of added red and white and by the figures of animals (a rooster and a boar) under the handles. 27 Another product of Nikosthenes' workshop reproduced here is a fragment of a shape which modern archaeologists call the Nicosthenic pyxis, as it is probable that he invented it.

Checklist no. 150. 37. C. Diameter (tondo): 14 cm. Checklist no. 151. A cup (the Greek word is kylix) was made for drinking, and the classical Greeks enjoyed wine no less than 51 today's Californians. But the cups were rather voluminous, thus it is no wonder that people got drunk easily, even if the usual (and economical) custom was to drink wine mixed with a good deal of water. The consequences of immoderate drinking were a favorite subject for decoration of drinking cups. As a deterrent? Most certainly not; rather as a sample of good humor.

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