Altamura painter, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ACCESSION NUMBER
59.178
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“… Greece when this bowl was made (around 470 -460 BC)wa at the height of its much imitated but still unsurpassed civilizati on. And yet here its artists were , depicting themselves rampaging barbarians, capable not only of thinking the worst, but of doing it.”
Sebastian Smee “A WAR AND ITS RAVAGES DEPICTED ON A CELEBRATORY VESSEL” The Boston Globe September 10 2013.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2013/09/09/frame-frame-mixing-bowl-krater-with-scenes-from-fall-troy/MDRFXcUY23uI0FEax8IUNP/story.html
Worth reading!
59.178
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“… Greece when this bowl was made (around 470 -460 BC)wa at the height of its much imitated but still unsurpassed civilizati on. And yet here its artists were , depicting themselves rampaging barbarians, capable not only of thinking the worst, but of doing it.”
Sebastian Smee “A WAR AND ITS RAVAGES DEPICTED ON A CELEBRATORY VESSEL” The Boston Globe September 10 2013.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2013/09/09/frame-frame-mixing-bowl-krater-with-scenes-from-fall-troy/MDRFXcUY23uI0FEax8IUNP/story.html
Worth reading!
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