Athenian Red Figure Vases: the Archaic Period (World of Art) - Softcover

John Boardman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500201439 ISBN 13: 9780500201435

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1975

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

'Admirable text ... full of penetrating, often clever, observations' - British Book News

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0500201439
• ISBN 13: 9780500201435
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252