Greek Vase Painting: Form, Figure, and Narrative - Treasures of the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid - Tapa dura

This volume, highlighting the development of Greek art from the dawn of the Iron Age to the age of Alexander, features forty-four exceptional ancient Greek, Etruscan, and Italic vases. These painted vessels - monuments to the search by Greek artists for the means of realizing on a small scale, on a two-dimensional surface, accurate renderings of the human form, human spaces, and divine narratives - are masterpieces of the potter's craft and the painter's art. The Greek artists represented - including the Athenians: Andokides, the Berlin Painter, Epiktetos, the Painter of the Madrid Fountain, the Tarquinia Painter, as well as the Baltimore Painter of Magna Graeci - are some of the masters of the medium. The varied types of vessels span the ancient Greek and Italian world both chronologically and geographically. Reproduced in ninety-three color plates and accompanied by critical texts documenting each vase and interpreting the meaning of the painted subjects, the vases commend themselves not only for their quality and excellent state of preservation, but for their range of imagery. Many are published here for the first time.

PALOMA CABRERA has been the Chief Curator of the Roman and Greek Antiquities Department at the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid since 1992. She is a specialist in Greek ceramics and has published numerous works related to the colonization and commerce of the Greeks in Spain. Recently, her research has been centered in studying the iconography of vases from Magna Graecia. KARL KILINSKI II, Professor of Art History at Southern Methodist University, teaches classes on Greek and Egyptian art. He holds degrees in Anthropology and Classical Art History & Archaeology and is currently researching and writing a monograph entitled "The Presence of the"" ""Past: Greek Myth in Western Art." JENIFER NEILS, Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History and Classics at Case Western Reserve University, is most recently the author of "The Parthenon Frieze "(Cambridge 2001) and co-author of the exhibition catalogue "Coming of"" ""Age in Ancient Greece "(Yale 2003). SARAH PEIRCE, Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Language at Fordham University, studies the representation of Greek religion in classical vase-painting. Her forthcoming book on the Lenaia Vases will be published by Cambridge University Press. ANN STEINER, Shirley Watkins Steinman Professor of Classics at Franklin & Marshall College, specializes in the study of Greek vases in their social context. She is Director of Research for the Mugello Valley Archaeological Project excavations at Poggio Colla. Her forthcoming book, "Reading Greek Vases, "will be published by Cambridge University Press.