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#Ancient Greek art
logandria · 5 months
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Apulian rhytons in the shape of animal heads (340ish, BCE)
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benvoolioo · 1 year
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i would die for owl skyphoi 
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flightlessartist · 7 days
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in hills made of coarse earth and honey🏺
✦ find me on instagram @the.flightless.artist ✦
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theftshrubbery · 5 months
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greek goddesses
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lionofchaeronea · 5 months
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Polychrome terracotta sculpture of the god Dionysos, holding an egg and a rooster. The unusual attributes may hint at a connection to Orphism, which held that the first deity, Phanes or Protogonos ("First-Born"), was hatched from a cosmic egg. Adherents of Orphism saw humankind as the descendants of Dionysos (under the name "Zagreus"), created when the Titans devoured the young Zagreus and were then struck by Zeus' thunderbolt. Artist unknown; created in Tanagra, Boeotia (an important center of terracotta production) ca. 350 BCE. Now in the British Museum.
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klimtgirl84 · 8 months
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In case anyone wonders, this is what Greek pottery paintings with front facing figures look like.
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I personally think sticking to side profiles was a great decision on their part.
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kebriones · 16 days
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460 BCE attic kylix from the louvre showing Atalante.
HER OUTFIT!
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transbutchbluess · 3 months
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blurry pic bc it’s too dark and they’re not even on my altars yet but my mother got me these !? i’m so happy. this might give me the motivation to clean my altars and start worshipping again
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a-gnosis · 4 months
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Relief from Selinunte, one of the Greek colonies in Sicily, 6th century BCE. Two deities on a chariot, perhaps Demeter and Persephone (Hera and Athena or Helios and Selene have also been suggested).
Photo taken from here. I cropped it a bit.
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I had a triggering week so I got silly and it’s everyone’s problem.
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evilios · 1 year
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The “magic sphere” of Helios
Found in the Theater of Dionysus in 1866, this mystical object, dating back to the ~2nd-3rd century AD, is made of marble, shaped like a sphere, and depicts Helios, Greek Solar God.
Here He is representing a κοσμοκράτωρ, “master” or “lord” of the world. He is seated on a throne with a whip in one hand and three lit torches in the other. While the purpose of the object is a subject of many questions, many agree that it might have been used for magical rituals - perhaps by competitors in sportive and theatrical events in the theater it was found in.
More information: 🏺 🏺
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a-sculpture-a-day · 7 months
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Athena Promachtos, Greece, 475-470 BC, bronze, Acropolis Museum, Athens.
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clairepatroclus · 4 months
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fan art of Achilles and Patroclus
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the-puffinry · 2 months
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something about this figurine really reminds me of ceramics some people make now! It's very stylised in a way i can only describe as 'cute.' The proportions and roundness...
And the way the bird is flapping its wings reminds me of how chickens move! If you've ever had pet chickens you probably know what I mean. They'll stand there and flap wildly without any intent of taking off. It's easy to imagine an artist observing birds doing the same all those centuries ago. :)
The first chickens were introduced in the region sometime before this was made, so maybe it's even actually chicken? or just a very chubby dove.
Cypro-Archaic II, ca. 600–480 BCE.
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arthistoryanimalia · 8 months
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#TwoForTuesday:
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The KX Painter Drinking cup (skyphos) with confronting lions Archaic Period, c. 585–570 BCE Greece, Attica, Athens Ceramic, Black Figure, H 11.2 cm (4 7/16 in.) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 97.366
"On the obverse, two lions stand confronted with their chests touching and their faces turned backwards towards the vessel’s handles. Each of the lions is rendered in black paint. Their manes, mouths, chests and bellies are all detailed with red paint, while the locks of hair along their necks alternate in color between red and black. Details of the lions’ anatomy are articulated with incisions. Their ferocity is implied especially by their open mouths, which display their large teeth and projecting tongues. On reverse, a complex interlocking lotus and palmette motif fills the entire pictorial field. The rim and handles of the vessel are decorated with thin linear bands. The lions and the lotus and palmette motif stand atop a red bounding line, below which is a pair of gridded lines and another red bounding line, which is in turn bordered by a ray pattern that emanates from the cup’s foot."
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lionofchaeronea · 4 months
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The god Dionysos, holding a kantharos (two-handled drinking cup) in his right hand and a grapevine in his left. Side A of an Attic red-figure amphora attributed to the Berlin Painter and dated between 490 and 480 BCE. Found at Vulci; now in the Louvre.
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