Polygnotos and vase painting in classical Athens
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Polygnotos and vase painting in classical Athens
(Wisconsin studies in classics)
University of Wisconsin Press, c1995
Available at 6 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Susan B. Matheson has written a detailed analysis of the work of Polygnotos, a major vase painter of classical Athens whose workshop flourished for 50 years, from the golden age of Pericles to the end of the 5th century. Inspired by the monumental art of Pheidias and other sculptors who defined 5th-century classical style, Polygnotos and his workshop reflected this style as it emerged from the sculptures of the Parthenon. Matheson provides a comprehensive chronology for Polygnotos's own works. She compares the evolving Polygnotan style to that of contemporary Athenian workshops and demonstrates its seminal influence on the later vase painting of southern Italy. She then surveys Polygnotan iconography to show its relation to contemporary vase painting and sculpture, emphasising both its originality and its continuity with Athenian iconographic traditions. RThe more than 600 pieces discussed here, 171 of which are illustrated, reflect the diverse religious, historical and intellectual trends in Periclean Athens. Some vases bear innovative representations of myths from the dramas of Sophocles and Aeschylus, while others portray the religious sacrifices and rituals of Athenian civic life. Perhaps the most arresting, though, reveal the private life of Athens - drunken revellers at symposia, women conversing together, a sombre young man departing for war.
by "Nielsen BookData"