i would die for owl skyphoi
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About to flip my shit trying to find a photo of stamnos supposedly in the Louvre, but at least I came across this photo of a wine jug depicting an absolutely magnificent owl with arms and… well, arms.
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AN ATTIC BLACK FIGURE AMPHORA AND LID
Circa 540 b.c.
Manner of the Taleides Painter
One side with a rider, perhaps Hephaistos, upon an ithyphallic mule facing right, a revelling maenad and satyr to the left and right, the satyr on the left grasping its haunches and penetrating the mule from behind, the satyr on the right aroused, his arms open, with a leg-shaped aryballos hanging from the mule's phallus, psuedo-inscriptions in the field; the other side with Dionysus between two satyrs and two maenads, pseudo-inscriptions in the field, details in added red, graffiti on the underside of the foot, each scene with a lotus-bud chain above, with rays above the foot, the slightly domed lid with a conical finial
13 in. (34.3 cm) high including the lid.
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//MAENAD// 2021
for my girlfriend, who is beautiful and loved and deserves to see herself as the work of art she is
Inspired by Ancient Greek art, The Bacchae by Euripides, and being a trans theater artist in the middle of a plague.
Available >HERE< as a sticker!
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Sphinx by the Naucratis Painter
Tondo from a black-figure Laconian cup, ca. 570
Dimensions H. 12.7 cm (5 in.), Diam. 20.6 cm, W. 25 cm (9 ¾ in.)
Collection Louvre Museum
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Redid the OG kylix with better technical skills! Still can't keep those friggin handles even during the drying out though
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you know his ass was comfy cozy
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[Image ID: Red heart locket GIF which opens to reveal a red-figure terracotta owl skyphos. The text on the left reads ‘darling flower of my heart’ /End ID]
owl skyphos posting again
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Oh to be two Ancient Greek women courting each other siiiigh….
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ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE SKYPHOS
Ca. 540-480BC
L:150mm / W:245mm ; 435g.
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//Bacchant// 2021
personal art about being a nonbinary theatre maker, going mad, and death.
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TOP: An ancient Greek kylix showing a baby sitting in his pottychair and calling to his mother.
ca. 480 BCE, Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels
BOTTOM: A 6th-century BCE potty found in the Athenian Agora.
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"Thracian Woman killing Orpheus". Fragments of an Attic white-ground kylix. Pistoxenos Painter, circa 470-460 BC. Athens, National Archaeological Museum 15190
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Attic drinking bowl with black-figures depicting a Scythian archer- close-up of the unrestored main figure, now in the Louvre (530-520 BCE; inv. F126; h. 13.50 x d. 31.50 x l. 40 cm).
Source: http://www.philipharland.com/Blog/2022/08/scythians-attic-greek-depictions-of-scythian-archers-sixth-century-bce/
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