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The shape, decoration, and findspots of vases, for example, can provide us with information about the person or people who produced, used, and discarded them. Decoration adorning Greek vases, in ...
Christie’s has denied claims by an archaeologist that the auction house knew that four Greek vases up for sale in a New York auction this week have links to Gianfranco Becchina, an Italian ...
In "How to Read Greek Vases" (Yale University Press, 2011), Joan Mertens, curator of Greek and Roman art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, takes readers through 35 notable examples.
A small illustrated vase exhibited in Athens offers rare insight on the cultic rituals of the mythological god Poseidon in ancient Greece.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A valuable ancient vase gifted more than 70 years ago by the Greek government to an Italian prime minister has been voluntarily returned to Greece by the former statesman's ...
Two plundered marble vases that marked ancient Athenians' graves ... The other has plant motifs. Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said the return of plundered antiquities from abroad is a ...
The British Museum is to lend an important Greek vase to the Acropolis Museum in Athens. This comes at a time when George Osborne, the chairman of the British Museum, is hoping to reach an ...