Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Archaic Period by John Boardman

Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Archaic Period by John Boardman

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Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Archaic Period by John Boardman

The quality of Greek painting and the intrinsic interest of the figure subjects chosen for depiction were never greater than in Athens in the fifty years following the invention of the 'red figure' technique is about 530 BC. The period is covered in this sequel to Athenian Black Figure Vases, also written by John Boardman, Lincoln Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology and Art in Oxford.
'Admirable text.. full of penetrating, often clever, observations' - British Book News
Sir John Boardman was born in 1927, and educated at Chigwell School and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He spent several years in Greece, three of them as Assistant Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens, and he has excavated in Smyrna, Crete, Chios and Libya. For four years he was an Assistant Keeper in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and he subsequently became Reader in Classical Archaeology and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He is now Lincoln Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology and Art in Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy, from whom he received the Kenyon Medal in 1995. He was awarded the Onassis Prize for Humanities in 2009. Professor Boardman has written widely on the art and archaeology of Ancient Greece.
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ISBN 13 9780500201435
ISBN 10 0500201439
Title Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Archaic Period
Author John Boardman
Series World Of Art
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Year published 1975-11-10
Number of pages 252
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.