Painting #004 - Ancient Greece (2)

The Revelers Vase   (510 BCE)

The Grrek vase was painted in the red figure pottery style. 
Although the vase is in the amphora shape, its purpose is more decorative than functional.

On display at Staatliche Antikensammlungen (State Collections of Antiques) in Münich

Side 1 : 
three naked party goers
(Vase 61 cm high) 

Side 2 : 
campaigner Hector arming
as his parents watch

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Ancient Greek Attic black-figure kylix  (530 BCE)

top view
Dionysus in a ship, sailing among dolphins. 
 (20 cm diameter)

(Attic = of Athens)

side view of kylix
(14 cm height)
(古希臘的高腳淺杯)

  Ancient Greek Music

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Aphrodite (goddess of love, beauty and sexual desire) 
- aka "Venus de Milo" 
- rediscovered in the Greek island of Milos
- marble (202 cm high) 200 BCE 
- Louvre (Paris)

Venus Callipyge 
"Venus (or Aphrodite) of the beautiful buttocks"
- Ancient Roman marble statue - late 1st century BC
(thought to be a copy of an older Greek original)
- Naples National Archaeological Museum

In an example of anasyrma, it depicts a partially draped woman, raising her light peplos to uncover her hips and buttocks, and looking back and down over her shoulder, perhaps to evaluate them. The subject is conventionally identified as Venus (Aphrodite), though it may equally be a portrait of a mortal woman.

Source: Wikipedia