Greek Painting Flashcards
What different types of ancient painting techniques were used?
Fresco: water-based pigments applied to wet lime plaster. Pigments bond chemically with wall during drying process
On Panel: wax or tempra media applied to specially prepared wooden panels
On pottery: using specially-developed pigments and techniques of outline and incision
Mosaic: small stones or cubes of glass (tesserae) placed in mortar
On parchment or papyrus: Books (in the form of scrolls) sometimes preserve water based paintings. Mostly from later antiquity.
Name: The Corinthian maid
Date: 1782-1784
Place: Washington DC national gallery of art
Artist: Joseph Wright
Medium: Oil on Canvas
believed to be where painting had started
Name: Sacrificial Procession
Date: 540 BCE
Place: fragment of votive panel found in Pitsa Cave, near Sikyon Greece
Medium: Pigment on plaster covered panel
Famous Painters of Antiquity
The corinthian maid
Zeuxis and Parrhasius- story with birds and grapes
Polygnotus
Apelles of Kos- pic of aphrodite in big clam
Philoxenos of Eretria- fresco with alexander the great
Name: mummy portrait of priest serapis
Date: 140-60 CE
Place: Hawara (Fayyum) Egypt
Medium: Encaustic on wood
Name: tomb of the Diver
Date: 480 BCE
Place: Paestum Italy
Medium: Painted ceiling
Name: Dipylon Krater
Date: 740 BCE Geometric period
Place: Funerary Krater from Dipylon Cemetary, Athens
Name: Achilles and Ajax Dicing
Date: 540-530 BCE
Place: Vulci, Italy
Artist: Exekias
Medium: Athenian Black figure Amphora
Name: Herakles and Antaios
Date: 510 BCE
Place: Cerveteri Italy
Artist: Euphronios
Medium: Athenian red figure calyx crater
Name: The death of Sarpedon
Date: 515 BCE
Place: Athens
Artist: Euphronios (painter) and Euxitheos (potter)
Medium: Red figure
Name: Stag Hunt
Date: 300 BCE
Place: mosaic floor from Pella, Macedonia
Artist: Gnosis
Medium: Pebble Mosaic
Name: Alexander the Great Confront Darius III at the battle of Issos (the Alexander Mosaic)
Date: 1st century CE
Place: Floor mosaic Pompeii, Italy
Artist: Philoxenos of Eretria or Helen of Egypt
Medium: floor mosaic
