ANCIENT GREECE
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• <a <a 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
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  • 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 theCollection)

    
    

  • 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

• <a Ancient Greece in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 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, plusImages

    
    

  • 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)